What the oldest known languish.And is it still spoken today?

Question

don't look it up dudes

Answer 1

All spoken languages are equally old since all languages are constantly evolving. They are all about one generation old since each generation makes changes to the language. The oldest written language is Sumerian, with records about 5000 years old. The next oldest is Egyptian, with records about 4500 years old. Neither is spoken as a first language today, although Coptic, the direct descendant of ancient Egyptian, is still learned as a second language and used in the ritual of the Coptic Church.

Human language evolved about 70-100,000 years ago in Africa. All human languages probably evolved from it although there is no scientific way to prove it. Most linguists accept the single origin hypothesis, however.

The people who say Sanskrit are wrong. The statement that "Sanskrit is the oldest language" is a statement of Indian nationalism and has no linguistic reality. The oldest records of Sanskrit are only 2500 years old and may represent a spoken language about 3500 years old. Sanskrit is NOT 5500 years old because that would place its age at about the same time that Proto-Indo-European was breaking up. Sanskrit is MUCH younger than that since it already reflects at least a millennium worth of change from Proto-Indo-European.

The oldest written western language is NOT Latin, but Greek. The earliest records of Greek are about 3500 years old (the oldest records of Latin are only about 2500 years old).

And Arabic is VERY young, the oldest records of what we know call Modern Standard Arabic are less than 1500 years old, if we think of it as nearly the same language as Classical Arabic (the language of the Koran). But that is still a written language. No one speaks Modern Standard Arabic as a native language. All Arabic speakers learn one of the dozen or so languages that descended from Classical Arabic as their native language and learn Modern Standard Arabic as a second language.

Answer 2

It's without a doubt Sanskrit (at least the ones oh who's existance is confrimed) in terms of oldest spoken language which to some extent exists today, it's no longer spoken, but many modern day languages are derived from it or share many words, including but not limited to Hindi, Latin, German, Punjabi, English, Urdu, Arabic... etc... it's at least 5500 years old, one of the oldest written scriptures (the Vedas) were told as stories then. Although the oldest western language is Latin. The oldest language ever without a doubt no longer exists, it would probably be pre ice-age related. As well considering that 10,000 years ago we saw a remote area where humans had average cranial spaces of around 2000cc (compared to modern day people's 1400cc), spoken/written language is obviously much older. Though brain size doesn't necessarily quantify into intelligence, it just makes people more capable of learning.

Answer 3

The arabic is the oldest language that still used till now
all the other languages took some words from the arabic & (accented) them
i am sure

the arabic letters (at the first place) was written with out points on the letters then people put these point to differentiate between the letters
u know in arabic there r some letters that the difference between them is just a point (over or below) it

Answer 4

The oldest written language is probably either the ancient Sumerian or Egyptian languages. The oldest spoken language, however, has no name because it was never written and is no longer spoken. The oldest language still in use today is probably Arabic.

Answer 5

Sanskrit is the oldest known language, it is not currently spoken

Answer 6

Oldest "living" language? Off the top of my head (no look-up) I would guess Hebrew, maybe Arabic.

Answer 7

Aramaic I think and no. Wait, I think Latin preceded that. Latin is spoken by some but not as a national language. So yes and no. Hmmmm, good question.

Answer 8

languages are constantly evolving. Consider that latin is no longer spoken today yet evolved into several other languages.

Answer 9

Hey Dude,
I like to languish too!

Answer 10

No one can answer that as languages are constantly changing. French evolved from Latin etc.