TY - JOUR AU - Mäder, Michael PY - 2018/05/25 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Detecting word endings in an unknown script JF - BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum JA - BAF-O VL - 2 IS - 0 SE - Panel 5: Managing and using data across different fields of study and research DO - 10.22012/baf.2017.11 UR - https://bop.unibe.ch/baf/article/view/4207 SP - AB - <p dir="ltr"><span><strong>Date</strong>:</span><span> Around 2200 BC.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span><strong>Location</strong>:  </span><span>Western, southern and eastern Iran.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span><strong>Type</strong>: </span><span>Syllabic Script.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span><strong>Text Corpus</strong>: </span><span>22 (known a long time), plus 15 (known since 2015).</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span><strong>Sign Corpus</strong>: </span><span>110 sign type, 1340 sign tokens.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span><strong>Status</strong>:</span><span> Principally undeciphered, except the sound values for </span><span>in</span><span>, </span><span>šu</span><span>, uš, </span><span>ši</span><span>, </span><span>na</span><span>, and </span><span>k</span><span>, drawn from the divine name Inšušinak found in the only bilingual inscription. Several further sound values were proposed. In our paper, some of them are being corroborated, and a new one is presented.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d310e32b-2883-1c53-eddb-7830e6f1f739"><span><strong>Language behind the signs</strong>:</span><span> Based on graphotactical patterns found in the texts, this paper claims that it must be Elamite or a language closely related to it.</span></span> ER -