Here's the problem with that question: since languages change with use, it's hard to say when something becomes a new language. English has been spoken for many centuries, but the English of just six hundred years ago would be almost unintelligible to a modern person. Hebrew was spoken thousands of years ago, but it's largely a resurrected language. Arabic and Icelandic have changed little over the centuries (a modern Icelander or Arab could read ancient texts in his language); Latin is still spoken, but as a scholarly language, not a national tongue. Modern Greek is Ancient Greek's direct descendent, but the sounds have changed. We might look at the most Undisturbed Peoples, such as the Acoma, the Khoisanor the Aranda and see what languages they speak, but since these left no written language, we can't compare the old with the new.
Ultimately, we can only speak of linguistic durability in relative terms, as for example we can say that Lithuanian is closest to the ancestoral tongue of the Indo-Europeans or that Basque may be a survival of some "Nostratic" tongue.
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.
Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language that dates back several thousand years, but it is not considered the oldest language in the world. Languages like Sumerian, Egyptian, and Sanskrit are among the oldest known languages with detailed records of their usage in ancient texts and inscriptions.
The Welsh language is one of the oldest languages in Europe, with origins dating back over 1,400 years. It is a Celtic language with a rich history and cultural significance in Wales. However, it is not the oldest language in the world, as there are languages that have been spoken for much longer periods of time.
No malayam is not the oldest language as per malayalam literature it has history spanning for 1000 years only but in india Sanskrit & Tamil are the oldest languages which has literature history spanning for more than 2000 years..... Greek and Latin are the oldest languages in the world......
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."
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.
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Tamil is considered to be the oldest language with current
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No. Sanskrit is older; probably the oldest.
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Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language that dates back several thousand years, but it is not considered the oldest language in the world. Languages like Sumerian, Egyptian, and Sanskrit are among the oldest known languages with detailed records of their usage in ancient texts and inscriptions.
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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.
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