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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting. I have read that Elamite might be in the Dravidian Language family.


13 posted on 01/13/2006 7:33:31 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud bunny hater and killer)
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To: Ptarmigan

Elamite, from Dravidian? Hmm... I don't believe that what is known of Elamite indicates that it is agglutinative, which Dravidian is. From the link I (think I) posted before...

"Unlike their Mesopotamian neighbors which had more than 700 signs, the Elamite cuneiform only contained 145 signs, where 113 were syllabograms, twenty five were logograms, and seven were determinatives."

This is kinda cool...

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnAgglutinativeLanguage.htm


18 posted on 01/14/2006 9:45:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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