Editing Elamite language (section)

==Writing system==
[[File:Bilingual Linear Elamite Akkadian inscription of king Kutik-Inshushinak Table of the Lion Louvre Museum Sb 17 (Linear Elamite detail).jpg|thumb|[[Linear Elamite]] inscription of king [[Puzur-Inshushinak]], [[File:Puzur-Shushinak.jpg|100px]] in the "Table du Lion", [[Louvre Museum]] Sb 17.]]
The following scripts are known or assumed to have encoded Elamite:<ref>{{Harvnb|Stolper|2004|p=65}}</ref>
*[[Proto-Elamite script]] is the oldest known writing system from Iran. It was used during a brief period of time (c. 3100–2900 BC); clay tablets with Proto-Elamite writing have been found at different sites across Iran. It is thought to have developed from early [[cuneiform]] (proto-cuneiform) and consists of more than 1,000 signs. It is thought to be largely logographic and is not deciphered. 
*[[Linear Elamite]] is attested in a few monumental inscriptions. It has been described either as a syllabic or logosyllabic writing system. At least part of the script has been deciphered and it has been argued to have developed from Proto-Elamite, although the exact nature of the relationship between the two is disputed (see the main article). Linear Elamite was used for a very brief period of time during the last quarter of the third millennium BC.

Later, [[Elamite cuneiform]], adapted from [[Akkadian cuneiform]], was used from c. 2500 on.<ref>{{Harvnb|Stolper|2004|pages=65–66}}</ref> Elamite cuneiform was largely a [[syllabary]] of some 130 glyphs at any one time and retained only a few [[logogram]]s from Akkadian but, over time, the number of logograms increased. The complete [[corpus language|corpus]] of Elamite cuneiform consists of about 20,000 tablets and fragments. The majority belong to the [[Achaemenid]] era, and contain primarily economic records.