2006-12-23 01:23:30 · 10 answers · asked by rhthullah 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The first language in the world is gone and forgotten with no traces for thousands of years. The oldest language with any WRITTEN, RECORDED history is Sumerian from about 5000 years ago,.
2006-12-23 04:58:20 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
this is a tough question to answer really. However, it's accepted that Basque (spoken in northern Spain and southwestern France) is one of the oldest languages in the world. It also has no known relatives. Linguists have literally pulled their hairs out trying to match it with another language -- but nothing.
Sumerian (which is exctinct and was spoken in modern day Iraq) is also a pretty old language.
the languages spoken by natives of the Americas also have a long history, and were once spoken in Siberia and Central Asia but moved, with the speakers, to the part of the world now known as North/Sout America.
2006-12-23 05:20:49 · answer #2 · answered by karkondrite 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Drawing
2006-12-24 12:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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.
2006-12-23 06:53:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
sign launguage
2006-12-23 01:27:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Arabic I would say but the first word was ug and no I'm not kidding
2006-12-23 01:26:16 · answer #6 · answered by rozzywozzy 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
You can't know for sure ,I already told you between Chinese,Sanskrit and Hebrew.
2006-12-23 03:23:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
how the heck would anybody know!
whoever claims to know is a liar!
2006-12-23 01:28:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
of course English,what else.
2006-12-23 01:26:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 8⤋
chinese
2006-12-23 03:16:54 · answer #10 · answered by steph 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋