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what is the world's oldest language?
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2016-05-08 11:18 pm
No one knows. It's impossible to know but some very old ones are sumerian, akkadian, sanskrit, tamil, old Chinese, egyptian, etc... Also basque is extremely old. It's supposedly the only surviving pre-indo european language. Now that's old. The only hope of knowing the first language is by language recreation which is never 100 percent accurate
2016-05-08 10:39 pm
We don't know. The only thing we know is that human language developed with modern humans in Africa between 2 million years and 100,000 years ago. The oldest discovered writings - in Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Eblaite and Elamite - only date from about 4000 years ago.
2016-05-08 10:01 pm
That can't possibly be known. Obviously.
2016-05-08 10:01 pm
Sanskrit, which heavily influenced many European languages, originated from Tamil.
1 is oldest and so on.
1 tamil
2 sanskrit
3 egytain
4 greek
5 chinese
1 is oldest and so on.
1 tamil
2 sanskrit
3 egytain
4 greek
5 chinese
2016-05-09 11:29 am
Nobody can know, since there were hundreds of languages in this world long before (thousands of years) there was any written history. Even today there are hundreds of languages spoken in New Guinea, few of which have any written form, many of which must have been in use thousands of years ago.
2016-05-09 3:17 am
Still used or dead also? No one knows for sure what language is the oldest, but here are some languages (in no special order) that are very old and some are still spoken while others are extinct or dead:
Greek
Egyptian
Persian
Tamil
Chinese
Latin
Hebrew
Greek
Egyptian
Persian
Tamil
Chinese
Latin
Hebrew
2016-05-08 10:09 pm
We don't know.
The oldest language that is still spoken is Hebrew.
The oldest written language is Sumerian.
The oldest language that is still spoken is Hebrew.
The oldest written language is Sumerian.
2016-05-10 11:17 pm
Sign Language.
2016-05-10 4:20 pm
Greek 4000 plus years spoken
Persian 4000 plus years spoken
Chinese 5000 plus years spoken
Sanskrit 4000 plus years spoken
other old languages are Tamil Arabic Hebrew Latin etc
Hope I helped.
Persian 4000 plus years spoken
Chinese 5000 plus years spoken
Sanskrit 4000 plus years spoken
other old languages are Tamil Arabic Hebrew Latin etc
Hope I helped.
2016-05-10 2:12 pm
Don't know the oldest language (no one knows language in details before the invention of script), but the oldest still spoken languages are either greek or Basque,
2016-05-09 7:19 pm
As soon as humans became physically able to speak they developed and used languages. Probably many hundreds, each little tribal group using their own. No one knows exactly where or when that happened, certainly no one knows what those languages sounded like or which is the oldest.
2016-05-09 9:02 am
Presumably they are equal in antiquity, although some are much closer to earlier forms of language in that they have evolved more slowly. Once early man learned to talk (or rather woman, since chattering is a female thing), she and her children and her children's children etc. have gone on doing it in each successive generation. That original language had to be learned anew by each generation, so in that sense the "oldest language" has to be. at any one time, that spoken by the oldest (wo)man then living. No one learns her or his mother tongue (or anything else) with 100% absolute accuracy, so over time tiny differences pile up, and the spread of the species scatters the result so that, eventually, the results become mutually incomprehensible, and we call them different languages. But this is a muddled, vague and eternal process: we cannot now know when any particular language "first" arrived. After a million years or so, writing was invented, and, as far as written records survived and can be decyphered, we can give a date for the first known form of many contemporary languages. This would give primacy to Sumerian, followed by Coptic aka Ancient Egyptian, Minoan Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, ancient Chinese... But just having written evidence is a pure accident. The common ancestor of all Indo-European languages goes back to the Late Stone Age, but even that is several milenia later than the first appearance of human speech.
2016-05-09 12:01 am
Hebrew, Basque, Ice-Landic, Old Persian, Irish Gaelic, Egyptian, the Mayan languages, and so on.
2016-05-08 10:02 pm
Sanskrit.
2016-05-12 5:59 pm
Han Chinese or Greek. Chinese was spoken in China at least as far back as the 3rd millenium BCE. Some form or dialect of Greek has been spoken on the Greek peninsula from the 2nd millenium BCE. Supposedly Basque and Latvian are right up there but there is no real consensus on those two. Latvian/Lithuanian are said to be the closest languages to the original Indo Ayan tongue that is the root of all European Languages.
2016-05-11 1:24 pm
Only a dozen or so have some record that extend to more than 2000 years. Tamil, Greek, Chinese, Latin, Sanskrit, Hebrew are some of them. One of the languages that could have existed for a long time is Tamil.
2016-05-11 2:51 am
The worlds oldest language.
2016-05-11 12:28 am
Samarians
2016-05-10 6:14 pm
The oldest language was uggabugga. It was spoken by early man while hunting and living in caves. it consisted of grunts, snorts and whistles combined to form a fluent communication tool. It was so complex that it could not be written down, but only expressed in art forms like cave paintings. As man evolved, he got fed up with how complicated it was, so simplified it down to smaller words that could be written down as well. This has continued over many thousands of years and has resulted in the more modern languages of 'txt-speak' and acronyms like YOLO
2016-05-10 4:14 pm
I believe Latin is the oldest still spoken language.
2016-05-10 12:34 pm
English as everyone speaks it
2016-05-10 5:27 am
The Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing and the Egyptian hieroglyphs are generally considered the earliest true writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400–3200 BC with earliest coherent texts from about 2600 BC.
2016-05-10 4:19 am
Tamil,Sanskrit,Greek,Chineese,Latin
2016-05-10 12:50 am
I would guess a crude form of sign language.
2016-05-09 7:42 pm
In my opinion, Chinese language might be the oldest one with over 5,000 years of history.
Yip
Yip
2016-05-09 7:05 pm
Dothraki
2016-05-09 5:13 pm
Sanskit..
2016-05-09 4:43 pm
Bnatclah. From equatorial Pangea.
2016-05-11 3:23 am
Presumably they are equal in antiquity, although some are much closer to earlier forms of language in that they have evolved more slowly. Once early man learned to talk (or rather woman, since chattering is a female thing), she and her children and her children's children etc. have gone on doing it in each successive generation. That original language had to be learned anew by each generation, so in that sense the "oldest language" has to be. at any one time, that spoken by the oldest (wo)man then living. No one learns her or his mother tongue (or anything else) with 100% absolute accuracy, so over time tiny differences pile up, and the spread of the species scatters the result so that, eventually, the results become mutually incomprehensible, and we call them different languages. But this is a muddled, vague and eternal process: we cannot now know when any particular language "first" arrived. After a million years or so, writing was invented, and, as far as written records survived and can be decyphered, we can give a date for the first known form of many contemporary languages. This would give primacy to Sumerian, followed by Coptic aka Ancient Egyptian, Minoan Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, ancient Chinese... But just having written evidence is a pure accident. The common ancestor of all Indo-European languages goes back to the Late Stone Age, but even that is several milenia later than the first appearance of human speech.
2016-05-09 10:59 pm
British culture.
2016-05-09 1:14 pm
i would say sign language
2016-05-09 3:36 am
That is easy. Body language. It has always and will always be used by all animals. It is used by humans more than lingual languages.
2016-05-08 10:13 pm
Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda: the earliest parts of this text may date to c. 1500 BC, while the oldest known manuscript dates to the 11th century AD, a gap of over 2,500 years. I don't know if it is spoken to this day, but I doubt it... Hope this helped...
2016-05-08 10:39 pm
Mexican
2016-05-08 10:06 pm
Spanglish
2016-05-08 10:46 pm
The oldest language in the world is the one in which the name Adam has a meaning, and that is Arabic. (just a theory).
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