Editing Elamite language (section)

==History of the study==
The study of Elamite language goes back to the first publications of Achaemenid royal inscriptions in Europe in the first half of the 19th century CE. A great step forward was the publication of the Elamite version of the Bisotun inscription in the name of [[Darius I]], entrusted by [[Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet|Henry Rawlinson]] to [[Edwin Norris]] and appeared in 1855. At that time, Elamite was believed to be Scythic, whose Indoeuropean affiliation was not still established. The first grammar was published by [[Jules Oppert]] in 1879. The first to use the glottonym Elamite is considered to be [[Archibald Henry Sayce]] in 1874, even if already in 1850 [[Isidore Löwenstern]] advanced this identification. The publication of pre-Achaemenid inscriptions from [[Susa]] is due along the first three decades of the 20th century by father [[Vincent Scheil]]. Then in 1933 the [[Persepolis Fortification Tablets]] were discovered, being the first administrative corpus in this language, even if published by [[Richard T. Hallock]] much later (1969). Another administrative corpus was discovered in the 1970s at [[Tall-i Malyan]], the ancient city of Anshan, and published in 1984 by [[Matthew W. Stolper]]. In the meantime (1967), the Middle Elamite inscriptions from [[Chogha Zanbil]] were published by father [[Marie-Joseph Steve]]. In the fourth quarter of the 20th century the French school was led by [[François Vallat]], with relevant studies by Françoise Grillot(-Susini) and Florence Malbran-Labat, while the American school of scholars, inaugurated by [[George G. Cameron]] and [[Herbert H. Paper]], focused on the administrative corpora with Stolper. Elamite studies have been revived in the 2000s by [[Wouter F.M. Henkelman]] with several contributions and a monograph focused on the Persepolis Fortification tablets. Elamite language is currently taught in three universities in Europe, by Henkelman at the [[École pratique des hautes études]], [[Gian Pietro Basello]] at the [[University of Naples "L'Orientale"]] and [[Jan Tavernier]] at the [[UCLouvain]].<ref name=Basello2004>{{cite book |author-last=Basello |author-first=Gian Pietro |year=2004 |chapter=Elam between Assyriology and Iranian Studies |editor-last=Panaino |editor-first=Antonio |title=Melammu Symposia IV |pages=1–40 |publisher=Università di Bologna & IsIAO |isbn=978-8884831071 |url=https://unora.unior.it/retrieve/dfd1bedd-2e97-d55a-e053-3705fe0af723/basello2004melammusymposia4.pdf}}</ref>