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Elamite

Translation
Elamite
/ee"leuh muyt'/, n.
1. a native or inhabitant of ancient Elam.
2. Also, Elamitic. 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.
adj.
3. of or pertaining to Elam, its people, or their language.
[ELAM + -ITE1]

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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