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The Oldest Language In The World?
- Thread starter Don Penguinoini
- Start date
I'm shocked! You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to correct Zephyr's crude and scatalogical exemplar, which I properly elected to ignore. You are both of you rude and vulgar!
How language like this got by RF'S obscenity filters is a mystery to me.
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
What about oldest civilisation?
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
Yes i was actually...
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
Sanskrit? 1500BCE
EtuMalku
Abn Iblis ابن إبليس
I know it's only Wikipedia but this is where I got my info
List of languages by first written accounts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also: Oldest Written Form
Some people base their answer on which language got written down first. If you're counting absolute oldest, probably Sumerian or Egyptian wins because they developed a writing system first (both start appearing in about 3200 BC). If you're counting surviving languages, Chinese is often cited (first written in 1500 BC), but Greek is a possible tie because it was written in Linear B beginning ca. 1500 BC.*
Ask A Linguist FAQ: Oldest Language
List of languages by first written accounts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also: Oldest Written Form
Some people base their answer on which language got written down first. If you're counting absolute oldest, probably Sumerian or Egyptian wins because they developed a writing system first (both start appearing in about 3200 BC). If you're counting surviving languages, Chinese is often cited (first written in 1500 BC), but Greek is a possible tie because it was written in Linear B beginning ca. 1500 BC.*
Ask A Linguist FAQ: Oldest Language
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
The Rigved is the oldest script in the world, written in Sanskrit...
EtuMalku
Abn Iblis ابن إبليس
Any links to back this up? Everywhere I look so far points to Sumerians and Egyptians
It is also one of the oldest texts of any Indo-European language. Philological and linguistic evidence indicate that the Rigveda was composed in the Sapta Sindhu (a land of seven great rivers), which is the region around present-day Punjab, roughly between 1500–1000 BCE (the early Vedic period).
The clicks made by the San people of southern Africa and the Hadzabe of East Africa are the linguistic equivalent of living fossils preserved from a much older and more primitive tongue, probably spoken by most of the humans who lived more than 40,000 years ago.
African click language 'holds key to origins of earliest human speech' - Science, News - The Independent
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
I put my hands up. Your right. I did find a source but i lost it...
To be argumentative, as is my want at nearly midnight, the oldest 'language' will undoubtedly belong to our earliest ancestors. Indeed, 'language' could be said to be used even by many animals!
As far as the earliest 'written language' goes this again is disputable. Their are mesolithlithic artifacts and early neolithic artifacts that seem to contain markings that have been diagnosed as a number recording system, and this would thus make them admisable as a form of 'writing'. Though the general concept is that the oldest 'known' whole written language is indeed sanskrit.
As far as the earliest 'written language' goes this again is disputable. Their are mesolithlithic artifacts and early neolithic artifacts that seem to contain markings that have been diagnosed as a number recording system, and this would thus make them admisable as a form of 'writing'. Though the general concept is that the oldest 'known' whole written language is indeed sanskrit.