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An extreme case is the Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda: the earliest parts of this text date to c. 1500 BC, [1] while the oldest known manuscripts date to c. 1040 AD. [2] Similarly the oldest Avestan texts, the Gathas, are believed to have been composed before 1000 BC, but the oldest Avestan manuscripts date from the 13th century AD. [3]
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, the list is generally limited to the four or five immediate predecessors.
The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...
Oldest language" may refer to: the emergence of language itself in human evolution. origin of language; proto-language, a stage before the emergence of language proper; mythical origins of language; a Proto-human language, the hypothetical, most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages; the date of attestation in writing .
Old Nubian, language of Nubia, 9th or 10th to 15th centuries; Old Javanese, language of Old Javanese literature, used primarily during Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom era from 10th to 15th centuries [8] [9] Old Church Slavonic, language of the First Bulgarian Empire during its Golden Age, 10th century earliest manuscript is Freising manuscripts
Still used as a liturgical language [233] 19 October 1853: Nicoleño: Uto-Aztecan: California, United States: with the death of Juana Maria [234] after 1851: Wainumá-Mariaté: Arawakan: Amazonas, Colombia: A word list was collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1851. after 1850: Hibito: Hibito–Cholon: Bobonaje River Valley: There were 500 ...
Languages attested in writing before about 400 A.D. Use subcategories relevant to the time of first attestation. The main article for this category is ancient language . Further information: List of languages by first written accounts
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.