Elamite cuneiform

[2] It has long been an enigma for scholars due to the scarcity of resources for its research and the irregularities found in the language.

[2] In 1933–34, 33,000 Elamite cuneiform tablets were found as part of the Persepolis Administrative Archives.

[7] The Archives are the most important primary source for an understanding of the internal workings of the Achaemenid Empire.

Because Elamite is unlike its neighboring Semitic languages, the script's decipherment was delayed until the 1840s.

Even today, lack of sources and comparative materials hinder further research of Elamite.

From the entire history of the script, only 206 glyphs are used; at any one time, the number was fairly constant at about 130.

The VC glyphs are often used for a syllable coda without any regard to the value of V, suggesting that they were in fact alphabetic C signs.

[4] Much of the conflation of Ce and Ci, and also eC and iC, is inherited from Akkadian (pe-pi-bi, ke-ki, ge-gi, se-si, ze-zi, le-li, re-ri, and ḫe-ḫi—that is, only ne-ni are distinguished in Akkadian but not Elamite; of the VC syllables, only eš-iš-uš).

In addition, 𒄴 is aḫ, eḫ, iḫ, uḫ in Akkadian, and so effectively is a coda consonant even there.

Probable treaty of alliance between Naram-Sin and Khita of Susa , king of Awan . Elamite cuneiforms, c. 2250, Susa , Louvre Museum . [ 5 ] [ 6 ]