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  2. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    Although the first known text by native speakers dates to 1885, the first record of the language is a list of words recorded in 1793 by Alexander MacKenzie. 1885: Motu: grammar by W.G. Lawes: 1886: Guugu Yimidhirr: notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language ...

  3. List of ancestor languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of ancestor languages of modern and ancient languages, detailed for each modern language or its phylogenetic ancestor disappeared. For each language ...

  4. List of language families - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of language families.This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article "List of proposed language families".

  5. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    However, it may be alphabetic and probably records the Canaanite language. The oldest examples are found as graffiti in the Wadi el-Hol and date to c. 1850 BC. [11] The table below shows hypothetical prototypes of the Phoenician alphabet in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Several correspondences have been proposed with Proto-Sinaitic letters.

  6. Paleo-European languages - Wikipedia

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    Map of known Paleo-European languages, including substrate languages.. The Paleo-European languages (sometimes also called Old European languages) [1] [2] are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Neolithic (c. 7000 – c. 1700 BC) and Bronze Age Europe (c. 3200 – c. 600 BC) prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families of languages.

  7. Language family - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Group of languages related through a common ancestor 2005 map of the contemporary distribution of the world's primary language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is a ...

  8. This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early ...

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    The log structure was made at least 476,000 years ago, while the wood tools are slightly younger, under 400,000 years old. That places the materials in a time before our species, Homo sapiens ...

  9. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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    Language Language family Region Notes late 18th century: Esuma: Kwa: southern Côte d'Ivoire [250] late 18th century: Maipure: Arawakan: Upper Orinoco region: late 18th century: Ruthenian: Indo-European: Eastern Slavic regions of Poland-Lithuania: Evolved into Belarusian, Ukrainian and Rusyn. after the late 1790s: Chiriba: Panoan: Moxos ...