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A list of 17 words was recorded in 1576 by Christopher Hall, an assistant to Martin Frobisher. [192] [193] 1806: Tswana: Heinrich Lictenstein – Upon the Language of the Beetjuana: The first complete Bible translation was published in 1857 by Robert Moffat. 1819: Cherokee: Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary: 1820: Maori: grammar by Thomas Kendall ...
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.
Languages. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Search. Search. ... 1.1 Elder / Eldest / Older / Oldest. 14 comments. Toggle the table of ...
List of ISO 639-3 codes – three-letter codes, intended to "cover all known natural languages" List of ISO 639-5 codes – three-letter codes for language families and groups IETF language tag – depends on ISO 639, but provides various expansion mechanisms
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 this definition, the term includes languages attested from ancient times in the list of languages by first written accounts, and described in historical linguistics, and particularly the languages of classical antiquity, such as Tamil, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Latin. The term may include some extinct languages.
The only East Germanic language of which texts are known is Gothic, although a word list and some short sentences survive from the debatedly-related Crimean Gothic. Other East Germanic languages include Vandalic and Burgundian , though the only remnants of these languages are in the form of isolated words and short phrases.
The oldest written records of the Quechuan languages was created by Domingo de Santo Tomás, who arrived in Peru in 1538 and learned the language from 1540. He published his Grammatica o arte de la lengua general de los indios de los reynos del Perú (Grammar or Art of the General Language of the Indians of the Royalty of Peru) in 1560. [131]