What is the earliest known written language in the world?

Question

please answer!!!!!!!

Answer 1

The language was Sumerian (in modern Iraq, not Pakistan), and the alphabet was cuneiform.

Answer 2

I am so glad that you qualified your question with "known" because the earliest known is already a very sophisticated, and flexible language called Sumerian in the area we call Mesopotamia (literally "amid the rivers," and encompassing modern Iraq). It was written in little wedge-shaped punctures made in a clay brick with a stylus. This was called cuneiform. By those well practiced, it could be written very quickly, and because of the medium (clay) it has survived in many examples today, although it was not until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone (which was a multilingual announcement - in cuneiform, Greek and heiroglyphs, I believe - that gave modern scholars the key to understanding it). Today, we know what they traded (bills of lading), thought (letters), and a little about how their government worked (legal documents).
But there must have been earlier versions, because cuneiform is such a well-developed written form. It is interesting to speculate what that might have been.

Answer 3

"In the ancient Near East, two major writing forms preceded the alphabet...Egyptian hieroglyphics...Mesoptotamian cunieform..."David Sacks,Language Visible,Broadway Books, Random House 2003
The alphabet was developed by ancient semitic peoples using Egyptian hieroglyphs as an inspiration.This occured around 2000 B.C. Actual hieroglyphs were used in writing by the Egyptians about 3000 B.C. but were only known by priests and scribes; More widely used was a hieratic script The earliest surviving Semitic" inscriptionns "date from 1800-1700 B.C. These were found at Serabit el-Khadem in central-west Sinai.
See also Alan Gardiner's "The Eygptian origin of the Semitic Alphabet" 1916

Answer 4

Sanskrit was traditionally believed to be the first written language, but recently archeologists have come across much older clay tags in Egypt, They use symbols that may have been used to mark jars of items for sale, and where they were supposed to be shipped to. They look like an early version of hieroglyphics, which would make them the oldest writing we've found so far.

Answer 5

The earliest known writing originated with the Sumerians about 5500 years ago in Pakistan.

Answer 6

Cuneiform script

Answer 7

Irdu

Answer 8

Cave paintings and markings.

Answer 9

obviously, it would have to be caveman