chinese the oldest language in the world.?

Question

ok well in a resent serch of mine i found that chinese dates back 1000 years before the oldest known form of cuniform or any other language . can any one corroberate this. oh and please keep hebrew out of this it was used after the death of christ hence is definatly not any were near old enough.

ok well in a resent serch of mine i found that chinese dates back 1000 years before the oldest known form of cuniform or any other language . can any one corroberate this. oh and please keep hebrew out of this it was used after the death of christ hence is definatly not any were near old enough. also egyption writtings developeed around the same time 3200 bc . my question is what is older . cave drawings are unrefutably the oldest atempts but dont clasify as a proper language . and acording to my serch carbon dateing shows chinese as the oldest know form of writeing on arifacts any were . is this true ? or is my sources wrong . also please dont refer to winipeg its not acurate and the facts writen there can be alterd by any one .

Answer 1

You are incorrect about Chinese. The oldest written records in the world are in Sumerian and are about 5000 years old. The next oldest written records are from Egyptian (NOT Arabic) and are about 4500 years old. Sumerian died out a couple thousand years after its first records, but Egyptian survived for about 4000 years until its daughter, Coptic, went extinct as a spoken language. Aramaic (which is NOT a parent of Arabic, but a cousin) has written records that are about 3000 years old. The oldest records of Sanskrit, Old Tamil, and Old Chinese are about 2500 years old. The oldest records of Greek are about 3500 years old and the oldest records of Latin are about 2700 years old. The oldest records of Hebrew are about 2700 years old (you are incorrect about the "after the death of Christ" statement), although there are written records of the ancestor language of Hebrew (Proto-Northwest Semitic) that date to about 3500 years ago. The oldest records of Arabic are only about 1500 years old.

Answer 2

Its tamil. Evidence is infront of your eyes. All the names of african countries come from tamil. Even cameroon they speak tamil words. Even korean speak more than 1000 words same as tamil. My theory first language is Tamil and people moved out of africa and made different languages. But you can do DNA test by checking words of african languages and tamil. You will see so much same words , you will be in awe.

For me major shock is watching korean drama and i used to think koreans are like chinese , then when i see their culture , its very respectful to older people. Koreans are dravidians. Not the physically but the language and culture seems like dravidian with all the tamil words in it

Answer 3

The general dates of the first WRITTEN accounts of a language are listed here:

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Definitely not, the oldest languages are of those who built the first civilizations. They are: Aramaic and its offshoot Arabic (incl. Egyptian 7000 BC)

Answer 6

Since no one knows where language originated or how it originated there is no way to corroborate this.

Answer 7

oracle bone script

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Script


here's an answer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_language