Which is the oldest language?

Answer 1

Pirahã language

Answer 2

Linguists agree that there are no such things as "primitive" languages: no traditional human language has a "rudimentary" grammar or a vocabulary unequal to the task of talking about the things its speakers want to discuss. Noam Chomsky and his followers believe that all human languages possess a common deep structure; those structures are shared by all human languages, whatever their superficial differences.

It is often claimed that the Pirahã language is an example of rudimentary language, on the grounds that it has no numbers, a very small phoneme inventory, and limited clause structure. On the other hand, one of its primary investigators, Daniel Everett, writes “No one should draw the conclusion... that the Pirahã language is in any way 'primitive'. It has the most complex verbal morphology I am aware of and a strikingly complex prosodic system.”

The development of language can be observed in the development of various sign languages, which show the capacity of humans for language, when a critical mass of minds which require a language to communicate are congregated. The spontaneous generation of a language and its development from primitive home sign-like roots to rudimentary pidgin-like LSN (Lenguaje de Signos Nicaragüense) and finally to a more complex form in ISN (Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) can be observed in the Nicaraguan Sign Language.

Moreover, all languages are subject to processes of language change. Languages change inevitably in their vocabulary and phonology as old speakers die and are replaced by younger ones. Some linguists have hypothesized that this process is inevitable; linguistic drift, like genetic drift, could be used to set up a time framework. If linguistic change is inevitable, some have put

Answer 3

There never was an "oldest language" because people all over the world made their own languages. In fact, even the first people on earth knew how to communicate- i think.

Answer 4

The oldest language is the sign language.

Answer 5

Sanskrit is the oldest known written language. As far as spoken languages go, there may be no way to tell being that they were never written down and there are no surviving cavemen besides on Geiko commercials.

Answer 6

It's the Aramaic language. Jesus spoke this language
as it was used 2000 years ago in Palestine.

Otherwise, you can visit some paleolithic caves and
you will see other kinds of languages. The most basic one ..

Answer 7

No one really knows. Languages were spoken by people all over the world thousands of years ago.

Answer 8

some dialect of very early chinese!!at one time there was an inland sea in australia and around it's shores were many cities and villages of chinese sea peoples from before the time of the rule of their first emperors!!their are visible remains of a non-destructible nature that can be found in those "outback" areas today!!and many indigenous tales talk of pale skinned peoples having lived in the intrerior before the aborigines themselves!!the salient point is that mass migrations via contingent of ships requires absolutely literate and organized work groups with communicatable specialized skills enough to make a cooperative endeavor like that succeed!!and if that inland sea no longer exists we are talking about geological change over thounds of square miles of land and environmental changes occurring "AFTER" THESE SETTLEMENTS EXISTED!!EONS OF TIME!!

Answer 9

Sign language. The cavemen used it.

Answer 10

Sanskrit, I think.