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ˈi ləˌmaɪtelamite

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Elamitenoun

    a member of an ancient warlike people living in Elam east of Babylonia as early as 3000 BC

  2. Elamitic, Elamite, Susiannoun

    an extinct ancient language of unknown affinities; spoken by the Elamites

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  1. Elamitenoun

    A dweller in ancient Elam.

Wikipedia

  1. elamite

    Elamite, also known as Hatamtite and formerly as Susian, is an extinct language that was spoken by the ancient Elamites. It was used in what is now southwestern Iran from 2600 BC to 330 BC. Elamite works disappear from the archeological record after Alexander the Great entered Iran. Elamite is generally thought to have no demonstrable relatives and is usually considered a language isolate. The lack of established relatives makes its interpretation difficult.A sizeable number of Elamite lexemes are known from the trilingual Behistun inscription and numerous other bilingual or trilingual inscriptions of the Achaemenid Empire, in which Elamite was written using Elamite cuneiform (circa 400 BC), which is fully deciphered. An important dictionary of the Elamite language, the Elamisches Wörterbuch was published in 1987 by W. Hinz and H. Koch. The Linear Elamite script however, one of the scripts used to write the Elamite language circa 2000 BC, has remained elusive until recently.

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  1. elamite

    Elamite refers to a person, language, or cultural aspects related to Elam, an ancient pre-Iranian civilization that existed in the region which is now southwest Iran. The Elamite language was used primarily in the Persian Empire from around 2800 to 300 B.C. Notably, some of the inscriptions on the famous Behistun Inscription are in Elamite. Despite extensive study, the Elamite language is still not fully understood.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Elamitenoun

    a dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Elamite in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Elamite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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