The oldest continuously written language is either Chinese or Greek, both being about 3500 years old.
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Chinese writing has been traced back to ~1200 BC. Greek writing to ~1425 BC. The oldest writing system however is the cuneiform script which emerged in the Sumerian civilization around ~3200 BC.
The country with the oldest continuously used language system is believed to be China, with the Chinese language dating back thousands of years. The written form of Chinese characters has remained largely unchanged for over two thousand years, making it one of the oldest continuously used writing systems in the world.
It is difficult to determine the "oldest" living language definitively, as languages evolve continuously over time. However, languages such as Tamil, Hebrew, and Chinese have ancient roots and are considered some of the oldest continuously spoken languages in the world.
The trouble with this question is 'no language remains in its archaic form'. There are several language isolate (languages that have no known related languages) that probably go all the way back to the earliest divisions of languages (whatever that is) but even these go through progressive change. Speakers of any language wouldn't be able to understand that same language as it was spoken even a few centuries before. So really no language is any older than any other language. Written language is a different matter however as ancient samples have been found written in stone. The run-away winner in this category is cuneiform, the written form of Sumerian. This language is extinct however, both spoken and written. The title of oldest written language still in use today has many contenders but one of the fore-runners would be Hebrew.
Read the following answers with caution. Everyone wants their language to be the oldest, but the truth is, that written language doesn't go back very far in Human history, and without artifacts of writing, we can't tell what was going on with language, or how it evolved. We can only theorize.It is not possible to determine the oldest language of Europe or of any other area.Answer:BasqueAnswer:the oldest language spoken in Europe is LithuanianAnswer:Actually the oldest language still spoke in Europe is Basque. While you can hardly find written proof of this, the language is not descended from any of the indo-european invaders which clearly shows that it was spoken in Europe before any modern day language arrived.Answer:The oldest language spoken in Europe today is probably Greek. Alexander the Great standardized Greek and based it on the Ionian language. A person of that era could read the Greek used today.Answer:A lot of studies have said Albanian is the oldest living language also.
Sanskrit is the oldest language in the world, please see references below. Vedic Sanskrit is the oldest attested language of the Indo-Iranian language family. It is the language of the Vedas, the oldest Shruti texts of Hinduism, compiled over the period of the mid 4th to mid 3rd millennium BCE. It can be said that Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Tamazight, Hebrew and Tamil are the oldest major languages which are still spoken today. Sanskrit was also suggested as the best language for use in Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence by NASA. It is the only language in the world which is scientifically precise as was discovered by the NASA scientist Rick Briggs as published in the Artificial Intelligence Magazine Rick Briggs: "As we shall see, there was a language spoken among an ancient scientific community that has a deviation of zero. This language is Sanskrit."
The country with the oldest continuously used language system is believed to be China, with the Chinese language dating back thousands of years. The written form of Chinese characters has remained largely unchanged for over two thousand years, making it one of the oldest continuously used writing systems in the world.
It is difficult to determine the "oldest" living language definitively, as languages evolve continuously over time. However, languages such as Tamil, Hebrew, and Chinese have ancient roots and are considered some of the oldest continuously spoken languages in the world.
The oldest known language in the world is Sumerian, which dates back to at least 3100 BCE in ancient Mesopotamia. It is the earliest language recorded in written form using cuneiform script.
Yes. It's the language in which the Tanakh ("old testament") was originally written. It has been used continuously since then as the language of Jewish prayer and study, and is the most widely spoken language in modern Israel.
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Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited human settlement on Earth. Damascus is currently the capital city of Syria; Arabic is the primary language spoken there.
There is know way to know what language is oldest European language, because spoken language has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, possibly even up to 1 million years, while written examples of language only go back 5,000 years.
Everyone wants their language to be the oldest, but the truth is, that written language doesn't go back very far in Human history, and without artifacts of writing, we can't tell what was going on with language, or how it evolved. We can only theorize.Answer:tamil is the oldest and living language now.Even her sisters greek, sanskrit and latin died earlier she sustained till 1 st century..!!
Old Tibetan, which was first written in the mid 7th Century.
The Sumerians had the oldest known written language, called cuneiform.
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