Thanks BenLurkin.
Posted on 08/02/2022 10:12:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Elamite speakers are mentioned in Acts 2.9.
A society having its own script, different from neighbors, would have been part of protecting cultural identity.
An ancient Korean king had a group of scholars create the Korean script, which is a phonetic alphabet designed to be able to match all the sounds in the spoken Korean language. He was working at divorcing Korea from Chinese influence, so he wanted to throw out the use of written Chinese. Once that project was completed he then had a Korean observatory built, had the moon stars and planets plotted in reference to Korea and had a whole astrologocal chart and cAlendar devised, to replace the use of the system borrowed from the Chinese. In the historical record of all this you find the Korean scholarly class up in arms over the king’s
Korea-first cultural projects. There was even rebellion against the king considered. Entrenched elite classes are the same everywhere and in all time peruods - trying to protect their self interest in their own incumbancy.
Being a phonetic alphabet and not 3,000 or so ideograms, and with the Korean script required for all schools to use it and adults get educated with it, in less than generation literacy and writing boomed in Korea. Japan would have been better off if they had either adopted the Korean script or made one of their own.
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Elamites actually conquered Mesopotamia and ruled it for a short time, but they spoke a Indo-European language entirely foreign to the people of the area, as evidenced by the names of their rulers that the Mesopotamians recorded in their king lists.
No, they are entirely different writings systems. The languages they were used to represent are probably distantly related though.
It says they were “royal inscriptions” so I imagine they are praising the exploits of whatever Grand Poobah was ruling at the time.
Usually the problem is that for some languages, we have too small of a sample size for computer analysis to accomplish much.
Even with PIE, we can reconstruct that based on its numerous descendants, but with no intermediate forms living or attested in ancient literature, we can't trace its relation to other language groups because there are too many possible sound change permutations to be able to do more than guess about PIE's links to the Semitic or Turkic language groups.
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Thanks BenLurkin.
Interesting stuff.
I think I was confused by the term “linear” thinking it was some family of writing. In a very loose way, I guess it is. Looking up the definition I see “linear” seems to refer to a writing composed of simple lines as opposed to a more pictographic form. Although it’s interesting as I remember one of the stumbling blocks to deciphering hieroglyphics is people thought each symbol was a word instead of a sound. So although pictographic looking, the “picture” was only a sound and not a representation of a thing.
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THE KING OF THE ELAMITES!....................
The name "Chedorlaomer" has long been the subject of controversy, that has increased, rather than diminished, since the discovery of native Elamite and Babylonian documents. The first clue to an identification of the name is found in the fact, everywhere now regarded as established, that the name is a correct Elamite compound. Its first half, "Chedor" (= "Kudur," "servant of," or "worshiper of"), is found frequently in Elamite proper names, such as "Kudur-nanḥundi" ("naḥunte" in Susian or Elamite) and "Kudurmabuk." The latter half of the name, "la'omer," (= "lagamaru"), is the name of an Elamite deity, mentioned by Assurbanipal.Chedorlaomer | Jewish Encyclopedia | Morris Jastrow, Jr., Robert W. Rogers
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