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This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered writing systems, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages. It also does not include inscriptions consisting of isolated words or names from a language. In most cases, some form of the language had already been spoken (and even writ…
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Historians and linguists generally agree that Sumerian, Akkadian and Egyptian are the oldest languages with a clear written record. All three are extinct, …
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Aramaic is thought to have emerged around the 11th Century B.C.E. Tamil, spoken primarily in what is today southern India, appears in written form in the 5th Century B.C.E., according to...
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Oldies and goodies From ancient languages such as Hebrew to Tamil. Check out our list of the ten oldest languages in the world.
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