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  2. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [207] [208] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [209] 1891: Galela: grammatical sketch by M.J. van Baarda [210] 1893: Oromo

  3. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.

  4. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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    A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1832. after 1831: Mepuri: Arawakan: Amazonas, Brazil: A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831. after 1831: Mainatari: Arawakan: Siapa River (Orinoco basin) Venezuela: A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831. 6 June 1829: Beothuk: unclassified (Algic disputed) Newfoundland ...

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    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. Other informative or qualifying ...

  6. Lists of extinct languages - Wikipedia

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    List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages of Asia; List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe; List of extinct languages of Oceania; List of extinct languages of North America; List of extinct languages of South America

  7. Category:Ancient languages - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. 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, the list is generally limited to the four or five immediate predecessors.

  9. Oldest language - Wikipedia

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    a Proto-human language, the hypothetical, most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages; the date of attestation in writing . see list of languages by first written accounts. the conservative nature of a given language (low rate of language change, viz. "old" in the sense of "has not changed much for a long time"), see