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This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered writing systems , though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages.
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 ...
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
by name: List of language names (native names) by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic) by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.
Official language in: the Isle of Man; Marathi – मराठी Official language in: the Indian state of Maharashtra and the Indian territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli; Marshallese – Ebon, Kajin M̧ajeļ, Kajin Majõl Official language in: the Marshall Islands; Marwari – मारवाड़ी, مارواڑی
The Global Lexicostatistical Database includes basic word lists of 110 items each for many of the world's languages. [10] The 110-word list is a modified 100-item Swadesh list consisting of the original 100 Swadesh list items, in addition to the following 10 additional words from the Swadesh–Yakhontov list:
Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.
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 ...