Answer · Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite
A few hundred basic signs, with the rest variants or compounds, carry the system.
A few hundred basic signs, with the rest variants or compounds, carry the system.
Where it stands
Still possibleIts tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
What it predicts
- Compositional analysis decomposes many listed signs into a smaller core.
What would rule it out
- The proposed compounds do not share distributions with their supposed parts.
Evidence 1 for · none against
The questions it answers
Most likelyThe inventory is of the order of a thousand or more signs, many rare, as in proto-cuneiform
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). A few hundred basic signs, with the rest variants or compounds, carry the system. [Answer ANS0D1P9B824BQT]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D1P9B824BQT
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year = {2026},
note = {Answer, catalog key ANS0D1P9B824BQT},
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