Languages such as English, Latin, Spanish, French, Greek, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
2006-09-03 12:25:29 · 5 answers · asked by Bob 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Written things like books, messages, poems, anything with text on it.
2006-09-03 12:31:39 · update #1
The Gilgamesh Epic in Ugaritic would be one of the earliest. Part of the Biblical creation account comes from it.
A fun one to play w/ is the never translated writings of 3 kingdoms south of the 5th cataract of the Nile. The shards we have have writing of dots, dashes and spaces. Even our best computers haven't deciphered them.
2006-09-03 12:36:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The oldest writing is in Sumerian, about 5000 years ago. The next oldest writing is in Ancient Egyptian 4500 years ago. Other ancient writings are in Mycenean Greek, about 3500 years ago; Old Aramaic, about 3000 years ago; Akkadian, about 4000 years ago; Sanskrit, Old Chinese, and Old Tamil, about 2500 years ago; Phoenician/Hebrew, about 3000 years ago; Latin, about 3000 years ago; Etruscan, about 3000 years ago; Arabic, about 1500 years ago; English, about 1500 years ago; Spanish, about 1000 years ago; French, about 1000 years ago; Mayan, about 2500 years ago
2006-09-03 13:47:35 · answer #2 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello
2006-09-03 12:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mary Had A little Lamb was the first recorded sound thanks Thomas Edison
2006-09-03 12:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by applelamb 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the vedas, the Qu'ran
2006-09-03 13:12:43 · answer #5 · answered by . 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋