Not how old is earth, plant life, animal lives, or world and man, but how old is the language in the bible?

Question

How old is the oldest language?

Hebrew and how old is this language? Did Abraham speak Hebrew?

Armenia is in the time of Isaiah 828 to 714 before Christ.

Greece Empire #5 is 336 before Christ. O.T. books done 443 before Christ.

Answer 1

Hebrew is hardly the oldest language.

http://www.linguistlist.org/ask-ling/oldest.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003591.html

Answer 2

Hebrew is not the oldest language in the world. The oldest known legitimate language (there are others. Remember, even the cave man writing on walls can be considered a form of language) is Sumerian.

The oldest known with written records would be ancient Chinese.

And the earth is roughly about 4.5 BILLION years old.

Answer 3

hebrew is probably not the oldest language. it evolved out of other semite languages i guess around 2500BC, maybe somewhat earlier than that.

when you ask if abraham spoke hebrew, you assume abraham existed, which is something you can't take for granted just because it's in the bible. but people around the time abraham lived, if he lived, probably spoke some ancient form of hebrew.

i must stress that modern hebrew is different in many ways from the hebrew used to write the bible, although a hebrew speaker of today can understand biblical hebrew.

Answer 4

Lots of very different questions there.

Language - probably - goes right back to early humans, well over 50,000 years. I think it is likely that Neaderthals had a complex language as well, but possibly not verbal.

The bible, at best, is 3,000 years old.

Answer 5

The world is 6,000 years old, and there's some who believe that Adam and Eve spoke Hebrew.

Answer 6

Roughly about 8000 years, give or take a few.