New Elamite language

New Elamite is the final stage of the Elamite language, an extinct language spoken in ancient Elam, a region encompassing parts of modern-day Iran. This stage of the language, written in cuneiform script, was used during the reign of the Achaemenian kings of Persia from the 6th to 4th centuries BC.1

While not fully deciphered, some grammatical features of Elamite are known, such as the plural suffix -p and certain verb endings. The Elamite language has no known relatives or modern descendants. Elamite documents exist from three historical periods, with the earliest using a pictographic script and later periods employing cuneiform.12