Elamite
Americannoun
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a native or inhabitant of ancient Elam.
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Also a language of unknown affinities, spoken by the Elamites as late as the 1st century b.c., written c3500–c2500 b.c. in a linear script and thereafter in a cuneiform script.
adjective
noun
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an inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Elam
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Also called: Elamitic. Susian. the extinct language of this people, of no known relationship, recorded in cuneiform inscriptions dating from the 25th to the 4th centuries bc
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Elamite
Example Sentences
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The alabaster vase bears inscriptions in four ancient languages: Akkadian, Elamite, Persian, and Egyptian.
From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2025
A thousand years later, the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte invaded what had once been Naram-Sin’s territory.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2022
Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus?
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the name of the first Chinese emperor who built an observatory, Nai-Kwang-ti, somewhat resembles that of the Elamite king, Kuder-na-hangti, who conquered Chaldaea about 2280 B.C.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
The pestilence spread over the whole civilised world; Syria and Assyria, Elamite and Bedâwin, Kurd and Akkadian equally suffered.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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