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Which is the oldest indian language?

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If you mean native American language, it is impossible for anyone today to find the answer. The native languages that we know today in the Americas evolved very slowly over many tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of years from very ancient prehistoric languages spoken in north-East Asia and during the migrations of native people from Asia into the Americas.

These prehistoric languages are not known, but they evolved into the ancestor languages of every language spoken by native Americans. There were probably many waves of migrations represented today by the major language families: Je-Tupi-Carib, Proto-Athapaskan, Proto-Algonkian, Proto-Siouan, Proto-Uto-Aztecan, Macro-Tucanoan, Maya-Chipaya-Yunga and many more.

We can never know which of these is the oldest, but we can say with some certainty which are the newest, since these languages only developed in fairly recent times after tribes split and evolved different languages (such as Crow, a Siouan language that evolved from Hidatsa).

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