id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7945 Elamite language - Wikipedia .html text/html 4625 809 73 Elamite is generally thought to have no demonstrable relatives and is usually considered a language isolate. Elamite is an agglutinative language,[6] and its grammar was characterized by a well-developed and pervasive nominal class system. The Elamite language may have remained in widespread use after the Achaemenid period. The Middle Elamite conjugation I is formed with the following suffixes: The language uses postpositions such as -ma "in" and -na "of", but spatial and temporal relationships are generally expressed in Middle Elamite by means of "directional words" originating as nouns or verbs. Diakonoff[15] and later, in 1974, defended by David McAlpin.[16] In 2012, Southworth proposed that Elamite forms the "Zagrosian family" along with Brahui and, further down the cladogram, the remaining Dravidian languages; this family would have originated in Southwest Asia (southern Iran) and was widely distributed in South Asia and parts of eastern West Asia before the Indo-Aryan migration.[17] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elamite language. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7945.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7945.txt