# A few hundred basic signs, with the rest variants or compounds, carry the system.

> Still possible: A few hundred basic signs, with the rest variants or compounds, carry the system.

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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.

**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

- 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

[Clustering and topic models group many signs into recurring families.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P9BFW4P5W/clustering-and-topic-models-group-many-signs-into-recurring)

Suggestive

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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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