# The values are largely right but the system includes logograms or misassigned signs, so some readings will…

> Still possible: The values are largely right but the system includes logograms or misassigned signs, so some readings will change.

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# The values are largely right but the system includes logograms or misassigned signs, so some readings will…

The values are largely right but the system includes logograms or misassigned signs, so some readings will change.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- A minority of signs (about 30 per cent on Mäder's estimate) behave distributionally like logograms rather than syllables.
- Corrections are local; the core of royal names and common words survives.

## What would rule it out

- Every sign's distribution fits a phonographic value and no reading needs a logogram.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Mäder argues from distributional statistics that only about 70 per cent of signs are phonographic.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P94WY3V4G/mader-argues-from-distributional-statistics-that-only-about)

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## The questions it answers

[Has Linear Elamite been read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/questions/QST0D1P91Z67YF2/has-linear-elamite-been-read)

Most likelyThe 2022 sign values are correct in substance and Linear Elamite writes Elamite; the texts can now be read

## Cite it

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**ANS** 0D1P94N40K89

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