2006-09-07 08:02:05 · 9 answers · asked by ladybug_ref 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
if pepole started using a written languege around 6 thousand years ago and thats about the time when the world was created were we made able to write languege
2006-09-07 08:11:35 · update #1
about 6000 years ago - see cuneiform
2006-09-07 08:04:40 · answer #1 · answered by e fitz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is an interesting question. I believe the oldest evidence was found in the form of pictures on cave walls. Although not an official language it was the beginning of recording stories with pictures instead of letters.
The Archaic Egyptian language (used before 2600 B.C.) demonstrates the first appearance of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics was Egypt's written language, comprised of pictures and sound symbols. It is long considered the world's oldest system of written language. There are records of this written language back to 3200 B.C., to which the famed Narmer Palette is dated. Hieroglyphics ceased to be used sometime around the 4th century B.C.
2006-09-07 15:14:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This can date back to the cave man era with drawings on the walls. And through the years, the written language has just gotten more developed to the state we have now. But back then, symbols were the same thing as writing. Most written languages(not english) are from characters that manifested into the writing you see today.
2006-09-07 15:05:54 · answer #3 · answered by Mitchell B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earliest evidence of wiriting is from Sumeria about 4000BCE. That was when laws started to be written down.
I believe that in the previous several millennia the world was in a higher age, as taught by the Indian scriptures, in which writing was unnecessary because most people were in touch with their intuition. I don't believe that the world or the human race was created 6000 years ago, that idea comes from an ultra-literalist interpretation of a book called the Bible whose accuracy on historical matters is in any case suspect (because historical accuracy was not the purpose of its writers).
2006-09-07 16:55:30 · answer #4 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1978
2006-09-07 15:08:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First true linguistic writing is cunieform from Mesopotamia c. 4000 BCE. The cave paintings. petroglyphs, etc. of earlier times are representational, not linguistic.
2006-09-07 15:08:57 · answer #6 · answered by x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe it was with Paleolithic or Neolithic people.
they had over 1000 characters in the alaphabet,
but only priests knew how to read or write.
2006-09-07 15:06:25 · answer #7 · answered by rever_a_vous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pictoglyphs%2C+age&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-500&x=wrt
at least 11,000 years ago since the last Ice Age, see PICTOGLYPHS.
2006-09-07 15:07:01 · answer #8 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you look at the way people speak/type here I don't think they have started....
2006-09-07 15:05:51 · answer #9 · answered by nikonjedi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋