Oldest LANGUAGE In THE WORLD?

Question

This question is always in my mind, i have learnt to write and speakmy mother tongue French and the language used for Universal Usage English.
I always want to learn the Oldest language in the world as for Tongue Pride.

Which one ? I need Genuine answer and plz dont tell me Punjabi , Mandrain or French which is very much young,

What i meant is oldest language

Answer 1

"TAMIL" is probably the oldest living language in the world. This is the mother language for the all the Drividian languages like Kannada,Malayam,&Telungu.
Even other Indian languages like Sanskrit is infulance by tamil according to the resercher

Answer 2

Tamil is the OLDEST LANGUAGE, and plz do not bring in Hebrew with the old and new testme and etc...,Taking Hinduism the oldest religion in the world was of Dravidian or Tamil based before the arrival of the Aryans
"Being Dravidians, the inhabitants of Mohenjodaro and Northern India naturally spoke a Dravidian language, yet this language war not one of the Dravidian languages now spoken in India, but probably their parent, which may be called Proto-Dravidian. The large proportion of the words used in the Proto-Dravidian are mainly found in Tamil.
This confirms the common belief that Tamil is the oldest of the present languages.

This is confirmed by Liguistic Experts like H.Heras

Answer 3

Tamil is the oldest of the living languages in the world. It is the progenitor of all languages in the world.
The mode of collocating Tamil words follows the logical or intellectual order more so than even Latin or Greek

We have, some years ago, made the remarkable discovery – which we now prove in full detail – that Etruscan, the ancestral tongue of the ancient Romans, is indeed a member of the Dravidian family of languages. The importance of this discovery cannot be overstated, as it radically alters all that is known of human prehistory. Among other things, it shows that the mobility of early man was far larger than allowed by the conventional academic doctrines of historiography and archaeology.

Answer 4

Tamil to be the oldest

A comparative study of the Aryan and Dravidian Indian dialects reveals the fact that their fundamental grammatical structure is so very much the same that it is possible to translate from one of these languages into any other by the simple process of the substitution of one word for another, a procedure absolutely impossible when translations are made from Sanskrit or English into any of the spoken dialects of ancient or modem India".
"In the most ancient layers of the
Tamil language can be discovered not only ample traces of neolithic culture but also the birth of the iron age culture which succeeded it".


The languages spoken by the Maoris in the far-off New Zealand which denoter utmost southern limits of 700 Kathams of Tamil land from Cape Comorin and the languages spoken in the numerous groups of islands between these two boundaries are allied to Tamil

The languages spoken now at Kamchatca, the North Eastern corner of Asia, is considered to be a dialect of Tamil.

The language spoken at Twsoany in Italy is a dialect of Tamil

Answer 5

The Dravidians speakers of the Old Tamil, were India's first inhabitants.
Archaeologists believe the Dravidians/Tamil migrated to India from East Africa in Prehistoric times.

The oldest Civilisation
Aryan invaders from the north conquered the Dravidians about 1500BC.
The Aryans were related to the Persians and Europeans.
Their language, Sanskrit, is similar to Greek and Latin. Linguists classify Sanskrit as an "Indo-European language."
Most of India's languages are rooted in Sanskrit or Dravidian languages.

It is believed that Sanskrit is the mother of European languages therefore
Tamil is much older than any other language

Answer 6

The oldest dead language in the world is Sanskrit; while the oldest living language is Tamil; believe it or not!? Both are Indian.

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Answer 7

Tamil

The Latin spoken in central Italy around 50BCE that evolved into some middle Italian dialect, or the West Germanic dialect spoken in Jutland around 50BCE that evolved into the Old English of Beowulf ?
It's all just a matter of how you define your species.

It's true that an ancestor of Tamil was spoken 8,000 years ago .
Tamil is the mother of Dravidian Languges .
Dravidian language family with 22 living languages is the oldest living language family.

Ancient Tamil birth is unknown

Answer 8

Tamil is a classical language older than latin, greek, egyptian or even sanskrit.
It is potentially the oldest language still in significant use.

Tamil cannot be compared to Sanskrit as sanskrit is clearly a language of nomads which came to birth after 1500bc where Ancient Tamil was already reaching it"s medevial period then.
Sanskrit is already dead in the modern world, whereby Ancient Tamil is still living rich in the modern world.

Answer 9

I agree with Ray; the oldest language still spoken seems to be Tamil (Tamil is spoken in Sri Lanka, amongst others, as a primary language, and is recognised in many other Asian countries). Languages can be traced from it, but the origin of Tamil itself is unknown (which to me validates the theory) But this is a subject people have been debating for a long time, and I think it depends on your interpretation of "language".

Certainly there are languages older than Tamil, but they exist only in written form (like cuneiform, Sumerian and ancient Egyptian). Most anthropological findings point to language itself dating back to 100,000BC as that is when humans evolved to "homo sapiens"

Glossogeny is a fascinating subject and I'd say it is well worth pursuing your wish of learning the "oldest language".

Answer 10

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Oldest LANGUAGE In THE WORLD?
This question is always in my mind, i have learnt to write and speakmy mother tongue French and the language used for Universal Usage English.
I always want to learn the Oldest language in the world as for Tongue Pride.

Which one ? I need Genuine answer and plz dont tell me Punjabi , Mandrain...

Answer 11

Tamil is the oldest language and the oldest living language wheras Sanscrit is a dead language and was present after Tamil was facing the modernisation period .
In comparison with Summerian,
Proto-Dravidian which is Old Tamil can be said older than Summerian.

Tamil is extreamly old .