Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library

This page contains those language families for which no holdings have yet been found in the Mansfield Library. It is included in order to give a complete picture of all the language families of the world. Families currently included here are:

• Cossean
  
• Elamitic
  
• Van
  

Cossean						updated 11-21-2003

	Cossean (Cossean) was written in a cunieform script about 1500-1000 B.C.
The inscriptions were discovered in the 19th century, in Iran.  No other languages
are known to be related to Cossean, so it is treated at this time as a separate
language family.  The present researcher has found no holdings in or about Cossean
in the Mansfield Library to this date.

Elamitic						updated 11-21-2003

	Elamitic (Elamitic), also called Elamite, was spoken in Iran (then Persia)
around 2000 B.C.  It was written in a cunieform script.  No other languages are known
to be related to Elamitic, so it is treated at this time as a separate language family.
The present researcher has found no holdings in or about Elamitic in the Mansfield
Library to this date.

Van						updated 11-21-2003

	Van (Van), also called Lake Van, was the language of the people who lived
near Lake Van (in present-day Turkey) in the ninth to seventh centuries B.C.  It was
written in a cunieform script; the texts were deciphered in the 19th century.  No other
languages are known to be related to Van, so it is treated as a separate language
family.  The present researcher has found no holdings in or about Van in the Mansfield
Library at to this date.

This page was last updated on 12-3-2003.
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