34.1772, Qs: Elamite Grammar

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1772. Fri Jun 02 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1772, Qs: Elamite Grammar

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Date: 02-Jun-2023
From: Samuel Kime [samueljohnkime at gmail.com]
Subject: Elamite Grammar


Greetings,

I am currently working on a novel and I intend to set the story in a
world with a different language. This language is going to be based on
the Elamite language. The novel is set in the modern day, so I need to
evolve the language quite substantially. While I have tried to find
resources on grammatical evolution, I have not come across many that
are particularly useful for this case. As a result, I thought it would
be best to ask a linguist what they think Elamite might be like if it
was spoken for another 2500 years into the modern day. There is some
evidence to go on, like how in Elamite in real life the word order
became freer with influence from Iranian languages and some of the
verb conjugations simplified, however extrapolating off of that for
someone with little linguistic experience is difficult.

Thank you!

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Elamite (elx)




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