2007-06-24 06:19:18 · 7 answers · asked by mohan rao kotari k 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Probably not. The Aborigines of Australia have a culture that dates back 50,000 years. As to what the first language was, we will probably never really know. Sanskrit is definitely ancient, but that doesn't mean it was the first language.
2007-06-24 06:22:24 · answer #1 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of the first written languages, yes. But definitely not the first language. It's possible that other written languages were lost (Sanskrit has a large archaeological record). Sanskrit is definitely one of the oldest languages that's still hanging around today. However it's impossible to know what spoken languages there were which did not have a written alphabet.
2007-06-24 13:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by sun of samsa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sanskrit is a member of the Indo-European language family (like English, German, Spanish, French, Latin, Greek, Irish, Hethitic, Persian, etc). All the Indo-European languages derive from one common source generally referred to as "Proto-Indo-European" a reconstructed language that was probably spoken around 5000 BC by a people of unknown geographic origin.
What makes Sanskrit so special is that it is still spoken today whereas all the other early languages of the family, like Latin or Gothic, have died out as spoken languages.
The question of the first language of the world has always interested humans. In the Middle Ages a German Emperor called Friedrich tried to find out about the "Proto-Language" of humans. He himself had grown up in Southern Italy and therefore spoke Italian. What he did was to keep several children in total isolation of human language, i.e. their nurses were not allowed to speak to them. He hoped that they would naturally start speaking the proto language of all humans, but what happened instead was that all the children died.
2007-06-24 13:32:54 · answer #3 · answered by Masterswot 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no. Not even the first written language, but the oldest one that has survived intact
2007-06-24 13:21:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no according to veda's last part(vedantha or upanishad) it is the tird language
1-palli
2-devanagiri
3-sanskrit
2007-06-27 11:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by santosh R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it was body language (non verbal communication)
the first language
2007-06-24 13:26:55 · answer #6 · answered by marhama 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
keep studying, it wasn't.
2007-06-24 13:21:54 · answer #7 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋