Sankrit language which is not the origin of all Indian languages. Yes it is to the Indo Aryan languages like Hindi and punjabi but not to the indgenious Languages like Tamil a mother of all other languages like Malayalm ,Telugu Kannadam and etc,,,,
Many people will say that Sankskrit was used for writing religious stuffs and etc.. but we all have to understand that the creators of the sanskrit are the Aryans who were intruders to the Indian soil and the illiterate Aryans learnt the arts and lit frm the Dravdians of the indus valley the oldest civilisation ,who spoke the native language Tamil.
Then after the Aryans fabricated Hinduism and and forced their created Sanskrit and stuff like the caste system in Hinduism, these are well known facts, the birth of sanskrit is only during the 1500bc after the arrival of the Aryans.
The birth of Tamil Language is unknown but one of the earliest text is even dating back 5000bc, which clearly speaks for itself,Tamil as the OLDEST LANGUAGE
2006-07-11 07:05:57 · 31 answers · asked by Royal 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The frequently asked question of what is the world's oldest language is one that admits of several answers, depending on what criteria are used to determine the "age" of a language.
Linguists agree that there are no such things as "primitive" languages: no traditional human language has a "rudimentary" grammar or a vocabulary unequal to the task of talking about the things its speakers want to discuss. Noam Chomsky and his followers believe that all human languages possess a common deep structure; those structures are shared by all human languages, whatever their superficial differences.
A highly controversial proposal put forth by a number of comparative linguists such as Joseph Greenberg and Merritt Ruhlen proposes that all human languages descend from a single common ancestor, the "Proto-World language".
If this hypothesis is accepted, one possible criterion for selecting a candidate for the oldest language would be through the use of cladistics: the languages that appear to have broken from the common stock earliest would be oldest. Under this criterion, most exponents of this hypothesis give pride of place to the Khoi-San languages, spoken in Africa. Believers here also tend to accept the single-origin hypothesis for humans, and look to that hypothesis about human genetic distance for confirmation of their linguistic speculations.
The languages into which the comparative method has delved most deeply are the Indo-European languages, but this may be a function of the fact that comparative linguistics began with Indo-European studies. It remains the case that Proto-Indo-European is the most extensively studied reconstructed protolanguage, and as such may qualify as the oldest language by this criterion. Proto-Indo-European, though, is an academic construct.
Another criterion for determining which is the world's oldest language would be to examine the depth of its written records.
By this criteria, most archaeologists concur that Sumerian is the world's oldest language; it is extant from about 3200 BC. The hieroglyphs of Egyptian date to about 3100 BC.
The oldest language with a continuous written tradition is Chinese; the oracle script seems to be related to the seal scripts of early Chinese, and is attested from around 1200 BC, and therefore the descendants of that script are still in use. Speakers of several Semitic languages developed the abjad or consonantal alphabet some time before 1500 BC.
Languages with very old literatures include Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada. it has been suggested that the earliest poems of the Vedas date to between 3500 BC - 1500 BC, though they were preserved by oral transmission well before they were written down. The antiquity of the texts of the Hebrew Bible is a controversial subject; some religious believers accept the literal truth of statements that would have the earliest portions of the text written by Moses, which would put them before 1270 BC. The poems of Homer are dated by Herodotus to approximately 850 BC.
2006-07-11 07:13:29 · answer #1 · answered by peter 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
UNESCO has authenticated that out of 6000 languages being around the world in which 2000 languages are being the primary ones and out of which only 6 languages are the oldest among all which brought the meaning to all which means being derived like … viz..
Tamil
Sanskrit
Chinese
Latin
Greece
Hebrews..
They have also revealed that one is Tamil and other is our western language which are the basic ones in the very early days contributed in overall civilizations among people
2016-07-14 03:59:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world's oldest language is Hebrew. It was spoken by Adam and Eve and Jesus Christ. It is still spoken today in Israel. The bible even states that Hebrew was spoken. The bible is the oldest (Holy) book of the West and the second oldest book in the world.
2016-03-07 12:48:58 · answer #3 · answered by Zippy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-30 16:13:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
comparative method has delved most deeply are the Indo-European languages, but this may be a function of the fact that comparative linguistics began with Indo-European studies. It remains the case that Proto-Indo-European is the most extensively studied reconstructed protolanguage, and as such may qualify as the oldest language by this criterion. Proto-Indo-European, though, is an academic construct.
Another criterion for determining which is the world's oldest lang
2014-09-25 11:04:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anna Katharina Emmerick: The first [proto indo european] tongue, the mother tongue, spoken by Adam, Shem, and Noah, was different, and it is now extant only in isolated dialects. Its first pure [indo iranian] offshoots are the Zend, the sacred tongue of India, and the language of the Bactrians. In those languages, words may be found exactly similar to the Low German of my native place. The book that I see in modern Ctesiphon, on the Tigris, is written in that language.
2014-01-05 18:25:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Tamil Only Oldest and Divine Language, there are many more proofs is there is no place for argument.
2014-10-21 01:37:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That has to do with a way to communicate between animals. I assume you are talking about the first language spoken by a human being. As we all know we're descendents of Neanderthaws. They have a throat and a tongue. Thus they will be able to make sounds. (ie. Dogs bark that's a language of in danger or in protest; Dogs hum to get people's attention) We, as early human beings, make sounds that sound similiar to African language, which includes "kaka" or "nono" But if you were speaking the first written language that would've come from the cavemen. They put drawings of men and animals on the walls. They use colors to write on a piece of skin.
2006-07-11 08:12:17 · answer #8 · answered by Meatball 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
tamil is the world oldest languages around the globe
2014-07-09 22:01:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
hebrew is derived from Tamil.African Tamil is the oldest language.
2014-09-21 23:20:30 · answer #10 · answered by ? 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋