ABSTRACT
Elamite is a language that was spoken in the southwest of Iran between at least the 23rd and the 4th century BCE; the period in which it is attested epigraphically. Elamite belongs to the so-called group of Limited Text Corpus Languages, implying that only a limited number of texts has been found. The Middle Elamite language is commonly considered as the classical and pure Elamite. It owes this honourable position both to its grammatical situation and to its textual tradition. The last phase of Elamite as a written language begins with the Achaemenid period. Coordination is expressed in Elamite both asyndetically and syndetically by means of the conjunction ak. In Achaemenid Elamite, this lexeme is also used to introduce a paragraph. Elamite verbs have three conjugations. Whereas the first one is a purely verbal conjugation, both the second and third ones are nominal.
