# The inventory is of the order of a thousand or more signs, many rare, as in proto-cuneiform.

> Most likely: The inventory is of the order of a thousand or more signs, many rare, as in proto-cuneiform.

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Answer · Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite

# The inventory is of the order of a thousand or more signs, many rare, as in proto-cuneiform.

The inventory is of the order of a thousand or more signs, many rare, as in proto-cuneiform.

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## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Image-based clustering keeps most of the listed signs distinct.

## What would rule it out

- Image-based models merge most rare signs into a few hundred classes with the same distributions.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[About 1,900 non-numerical sign forms are counted, most attested a few times.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P9B0814X0/about-1-900-non-numerical-sign-forms-are-counted-most)

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## The questions it answers

[How many distinct signs does Proto-Elamite have?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/questions/QST0D1P92YE69E3/how-many-distinct-signs-does-proto-elamite-have)

Part of [Does Proto-Elamite record a language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/questions/QST0D1P9270104G/does-proto-elamite-record-a-language)

Most likelyThe inventory is of the order of a thousand or more signs, many rare, as in proto-cuneiform

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