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Elamite

ancient language in Mesopotamia
Intangible dead_language Q35470
Elamite
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Summary

Elamite is a dead language[1]. Elamite ranks in the top 7% of dead language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,024 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Elam[3]
  • Instance of: ancient language[4]
  • Subclass of: human language[5]
  • Writing system: Elamite cuneiform[6], cuneiform[7]
  • Commons category: Elamite language[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Elamite language[9]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10]
  • UNESCO language status: 6 extinct[11]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ELX[12]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[13], agglutinative language[14], language isolate[15]

Why It Matters

Elamite has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Elamite is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i73233
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 06981128-n
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Elam
    Instance of → —
    Writing system → Elamite cuneiform, cuneiform
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007533401705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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