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2006-11-16 19:19:34 · 12 answers · asked by Green M 1 in Society & Culture Languages

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There is argument among linguists over which language, Tamil or Sanskrit are the oldest, but it seems to certainly be one of the two. Since they are both from India, it gives you some idea of the wealth of knowledge that came from the region. English itself was derived from an Indo-Germanic root.

As a time-ruler there are descriptions of rivers in both languages. What is remarkable is that some of the rivers described dried up more than 10,000 years ago. That dates it about 4 to 5,000 years older than any known Hebrew texts.

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2006-11-16 19:46:55 · answer #1 · answered by Expat 6 · 2 1

little doubt Sanskrit is the mum each and every of the languages as in line with the grammarian Mr crimson and Thomas. Of late, it has grow to be a literary language and now few hundreds persons in Germany and India are talking too. different than for this next living oldest language is Kannada and sufficient numbers of proofs are there and that's been proved and known and regarded by Guinness and each Indian might desire to be pleased with it. little doubt few different Indian languages like Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu too had comparable roots yet Kannada had each and every of the credentials. Please do no longer forget approximately the language i'm penning this(English) is massively spoken, documented stay language of the worldwide that's between the youngest one. We weren't the originators of the previous and for this reason don't be over enthusiastic / enthusiast. settle for , be proud and enjoy as we are belonging to this super united states who had given 0(0) to the worldwide without which no advancements might have been performed. Achyuth Kumar

2016-10-04 01:41:00 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Sanskrit the language frm India is dh oldest living language in dh world
Also Hebrew is a very old language

2006-11-16 22:09:56 · answer #3 · answered by Aanshik 3 · 0 1

Body language.

2006-11-16 19:27:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It's Aramaic!! Arabic and Hebrew are both from Aramaic, Aramaic is the root for both languages.The language was spoken in ancient Assyria, and was later spoken by Jesus. Assyrians today speak the modern form of Aramaic, known as Assyrian.

2006-11-17 16:15:47 · answer #5 · answered by ImAssyrian 5 · 0 0

Sanskrit is the oldest language.Dravidian language Tamil is also very old.

2006-11-17 04:23:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Hebrew

2006-11-16 19:43:55 · answer #7 · answered by GITMORGEN 1 · 0 1

I know it is one of the Yoruba languages originating from the Congo area. I'm sorry, but I don't remember the name.

2006-11-16 19:27:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

basque language is the oldest living language which has been dated to the mesolithic era.

2006-11-17 02:09:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

IT IS PROVED THAT SANSKRIT IS THE OLDEST LIVING LANGUAGE. IT IS NOT SPOKEN WIDELY. IT WAS ORIGINATED IN INDIA. PEOPLE FROM THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES & INDIA ARE VERY INTERESTED IN LEARNING AND TEACHING THIS LANGUAGE.
* WE CAN LEARN SANSKRIT ONLY IN INDIA AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

2006-11-16 19:38:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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