what was the first language spoken by man?

Answer 1

Linguists speculate that the earliest language as we know it was Proto-Indo-European - the mother tongue of all Indo-European languages, including those as diverse as Sanskrit and English. Some of the vocabulary has been reconstructed based on the development of known languages over the past few thousand years.

Answer 2

TAMIL spoken by people in S. E. asia and the language is more than 1,000 years old and has been proven to have been the first language spoken by humans.

Answer 3

English
Yoda spoke it and star wars was many years ago and far away.
Everyone back then spoke English just ask George. So someone from way back then brought English to earth. Then at the tower of babble god confused everyone by giving many new languages

Answer 4

Like one of the previous posters said we have languages going back thousands of years, almost all have the same common root though.

The only exception is that of the Bushmen of the Kalahari, their clicking sounds are believed to be descended from humanity's only surviving original African language before our ancestors begun the African exodus about 60,000 years ago.

Answer 5

Don't know. We have languages doing back thousands of years that we have found examples of, but who knows what "language" they spoke before they started writing stuff down.

Answer 6

Hebrew

Answer 7

"No one yet agrees on when language was first used by humans (or their ancestors). Estimates range from about two million (2,000,000) years ago, during the time of Homo habilis, to as recently as forty thousand (40,000) years ago, during the time of Cro-Magnon man."

second time I quoted that page today

Answer 8

Gruntanese

Answer 9

Noone knows for sure what the 1st language was

Answer 10

sign language