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Elamite is regarded by the vast majority of [[linguists]] as a [[language isolate]],<ref name="Blench">{{Harvnb|Blench|Spriggs|1997|p=125}}</ref><ref>{{unbulleted list citebundle |{{Harvnb|Woodard|2008|pages=3}}|{{harvnb|Gnanadesikan|2009}}|{{Harvnb|Tavernier|2020|p=164}}}}</ref> as it has no demonstrable relationship to the neighbouring [[Semitic languages]], [[Indo-European languages]], or to [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]], despite having adopted the Sumerian-[[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] [[cuneiform]] script.
An [[Elamo-Dravidian languages|Elamo-Dravidian]] family connecting Elamite with the [[Brahui_language|Brahui]] language of Pakistan and [[Dravidian languages]] of India was suggested in 1967 by [[Igor M. Diakonoff]]<ref>{{Harvnb|Дьяконов|1967}}</ref> and later, in 1974, defended by [[David W. McAlpin|David McAlpin]] and others.<ref>{{unbulleted list citebundle |{{Harvnb|McAlpin|1974}} | {{Harvnb|McAlpin|1975}} |{{Harvnb|McAlpin|1979}} |{{Harvnb|McAlpin|1981|p=3}}}}</ref><ref>{{unbulleted list citebundle |{{harvnb|Khačikjan|1998|p=3}}|{{Harvnb|van Bladel|2021|p=448}}}}</ref> In 2012, Southworth proposed that Elamite forms the "Zagrosian family" along with [[Brahui language|Brahui]] and, further down the cladogram, the remaining Dravidian languages; this family would have originated in Southwest Asia (southern Iran) and was widely distributed in South Asia and parts of eastern West Asia before the Indo-Aryan migration.<ref name="Southworth 2012">{{harvnb|Southworth|2011}}</ref> Recent discoveries regarding early population migration based on ancient DNA analysis have revived interest in the possible
[[Václav Blažek]] proposed a relation with the [[Semitic languages]].<ref name=Blench96>{{Harvnb|Blench|2006|p=96}}</ref>
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