Is Aramaic the Oldest Recorded Language Still Spoken Today?

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Is Aramaic the Oldest Recorded Language Still Spoken Today?
Aramaic is spoken as a first language by 500,000 people, mainly the Assyrian dialect, but also Syriac, Western Aramaic and Mandean. It was first recorded in writing sometime between 1500bc and 1200bc. I speak a bit myself, but anyone have any further ideas, confirming or denying? Has to be a living language, and also not one that died and has then been revived.

Answer 1

Sanskrit is older by at least 1000 years, and is still spoken today in India. Some might also argue that Chinese is older as well.

Answer 2

I Believe the Aramaic is not the Oldest language spoken today although it maybe the most used Oldest language.The Oldest will be Archaic Greek 1000BCE.which is very much mixed with standard greek.I hope this was helpful. Peace. Brother Luis

Answer 3

You can find references about sanscrit and chinese before Aramaic, but records are a weird thing to classify things.
Spoken language, oldest written, largest in use today, largest geografically used today are just numbers.

We are humans that belongs to the same strange and wild society. We should keep peace and close disputes.

Answer 4

Isn't Sanskrit purely a written language? Perhaps I'm wrong, but that's what I understood. In which case, I was always under the impression that Aramaic was the oldest still 'spoken'.

Answer 5

I understand that the coptic speech is a direct desendent of ancient egyptian and was used to help understand what the hieroglyphs would of sounded like when spoken.

Answer 6

Greek is recorded as long ago as Aramaic, and was also spoken long before that.

Answer 7

Ehm, actually NO. The world is too big and too young for us to know, actually there is an older one.. its a secret ahehehe... :)