What are the world's oldest languages?
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- Joshua
- I am surprised that the most ancient language Tamil has been left out in your article. This has not changed much over 2600years or more when at that time it had the 3rd sangam..literary society..that means tamil dates back further as we believe 2 more sangams predates. Recent excavations in keeladi in s.india dates back to 700BC..it was a city buried under the ground..hebrew and latin has tamil words ..some scholars say that tamil of the earlier form predates even the chinese..kindly do more research in Tamil which is belived to father Korean and Japanese too.
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- 05/05/2020
- Tomedes
- Thanks for your comment, Joshua.
- 19/05/2020
- Karthik
- U r correct
- 30/07/2020
- Joydeep
- Tamil is atleast 5000-6000 years old another is sanskrit atleast 5000-6000 years old no mention of these oldest languages here ... sanskrit has written documents also 5000-7000years old minimum Bengali is also quite old language then hindi.etc
- 31/07/2020
- Homo sapien
- I scrolled all the way down, to comment the same...indeed thanks for your comments:)
- 01/08/2020
- Dave
- Article from Forbes has better explanation.
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- 19/05/2020
- Dennis
- Did you ever consider the languages of Onochakancu ? The oldest people are the Khoi san . Why are their languages not considered?
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- 22/07/2020
- SouthIndian
- This article is misleading. Never mentions Tamil which is the oldest language.
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- 04/08/2020
- Mohan
- True
- 14/08/2020
- Kumaresan
- This article is absolutely misleading. Tamil is the oldest language
- 21/08/2020
- Who cares
- You indian people always have to spread wrong information around ?? Sanskrit is the oldest written language found till now there might be other languages found to be oldest because noone knows whole history. There is not even a single proof that might slightly indicate Tamil is an oldest language. You sick people there is whole another world beside india. Grow up and go find some history books.
- 26/09/2020
- simbu
- as usual, tamilians claiming they r the oldest language without any proof. Do tamilians know about research, scientific evidence, historical literature, scientific process ? The given article is correct because it contains actual proof. Ignore nationalistic tamils trying to convince you by making up facts. Tamilians claim they r the best at everything. If it were up to them they will say they descended from gods, created earth, went to another galaxy etc. Why stop here, u can claim just about anything at this point!
- 22/01/2021
- Padraic
- Stumbled across this while researching for a story I am writing. Disappointing that this is still northern hemisphere Indo-Euro-Asian-centric. Yes these written languages are amongst the oldest, but how ignorant that writing is the only indicator. The indigenous languages of the first peoples of Australia - the oldest living culture in the world, some 30,000 plus years is not on the list as a continuously spoken language. Wake up people, the history of our world is not just that of the Indo-Europeans.
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- 08/08/2020
- Tomedes
- Thank you for sharing your insight with us, Padraic.
- 15/09/2020
- Prince
- Some come and say sanskrit, alanguage of india is 5000-6000 years old. Its not at all true. Sanskrit would have started developing around 1400 BC and it developed from spoken to written form during the 2000 BC. So the stories like mahabharat, rig veda, ramayana are not evident that sanskrit is older. And especially, no scripts related to sanskrit has been found dated old age. Sanskrit itself borrow the scripts like devanagiri. It does not have a own script. It is more like an indo-iranian language. Now you know Why Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei opens a Twitter account in Hindi Sanskrit is much like a copied language. And taught to particular community(Brahmin) to chant mantras. Its not a common mans language
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- 14/08/2020
- Muthu
- This is absolutely wrong info. Just type oldest language in the world in Google and you will know the correct answer. Tamil.
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- 16/08/2020
- Fact checker
- The source is times of india. They are infamous for their fake news. Don't completely believe them.
- 18/08/2020
- Fact checker
- The source is times of india. They are infamous for their fake news. Don't completely believe them.
- 18/08/2020
- Intwilight
- Always dont ever write articles without a proper research. Imagine the number of people getting false info.
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- 22/08/2020
- Tomedes
- Dear Followers, Thank you for your comments. We've updated the article!
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- 02/09/2020
- Suvedhana Pandi Muniappan
- Dear all, Recent archaeological excavations in tamilnadu (a state in india) found an ancient urban settlement near a site called keezhadi (identified as vaigai river settlement) where ancient dialects which belong to tamil are found which dated back to 400-600BC.This is as per 4th phase excavation only. Currently 6th phase of excavation is going on.During the 6th stage excavation two skeletons were found which is now subjected to DNA analysis. Also the dialects found here shows how tamil language evolved from symbols to now presently using one. And there is a shocking discovery that many symbols obtained are close to symbols obtained in indus valley civilisation(IVC). This shows that tamil is atleast 6000 years old since 4000-1500 Bc is when IVC is at its peak. Search for 'pot route' by Dr.R.Balakrishnan. History may get rewritten based upon facts but fact itself can never be changed.
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- 10/09/2020
- Ram
- No its not. These supposed "excavations" and "dating" has not been seen or verified by multiple people. Just tamilians wanting to brag without any proof. When claiming something you need physical evidence to claim as such with some historical context. Making something up, doesnt mean u r correct
- 22/01/2021
- Raja
- TAMIL must be the oldest Human Spocken Language ! The main reason for this is Hïstory of the Human World. The vocal sound, the lips openning & closing, Aa,Uu,Oo(ஆ,ஊ,ஓ) & iM(ம்) is the basic Alphabet of Tamil. Tamil was having only 5 Vowels+9 Consonants=14 Alphabets. அ இ உ எ ஒ & க ச த ப ர ய ல ந ம = 10. TAMIL HAS THE LARGEST VOCABULARY & OLDEST BASIC PHONOLOGY & ROOTS embeded in almost all human languages !
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- 13/09/2020
- Tomedes
- Thank you for this lovely insight Raja.
- 15/09/2020
- Vandurutaan
- Till now nobody knows which one is oldest language. I dono about other language, but for sure Sanskrit cannot be oldest language I will explain with one example it has letters like ha, sha, sa, ja When it changed in another form it will be ihhh, issshhh, isss, ijjj and these letters are never ending it just continues until u stop the letter by urself. And u cannot hear this sound naturally only by your mouth u can make this sound so artificially created language. When coming to tamil, no one has created this language it created by itself with the sound of mother nature eg: when u hit a stone with iron rod it is ikkk, when u hit a floor with a broom it is icchh, if u hit a floor with wood it is itttt, if u hit a bronze then it is inggg. All are mother nature sound, and all these letter/sound end immediately it won't continue like iisshhh.. or issss.. In tamil leaves sound is mentioned as salasala, if u listen to leaf sound during wind u hear it as salasala only no different name given in tamil. But in other language it has different name... Tamil language formed by its own and it is structured gradually with grammar. And Tamil is reformed into different version worldwide and formed as different language and in tamilnadu and srilanka people still follow most of the oldest words. Tamil is world language, no particular community has rights to take the ownership. In current world, the purest form of Tamil is spoken in tamilnadu, srilanka and few other countries. And most of the tribes who have no outside contact speak a language which has most tamil words, we can simple say they speak tamil. Eg: Tribes in Cameroon (tamil nadu and Cameroon are far away), Sumerian language has most of the tamil words ( mesapatomia and tamilnadu are far away), in Pakistan huge number of cities have tamil name, Australian tribes speak tamil. Wat is the relationship between these tribes and countries... No researches are searching for which one is oldest language, but they stick to one language and search for evidence to prove it as oldest language.
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- 30/09/2020
- M
- I personnelly think that it is tamil. I can give facts and opinons that strongly support this. Last year, ina district called sivagangai, archeologists have found an old tamil civilization that dates back to many years. This civilization had trade deals with many other civilizations.
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- 11/11/2020
- Dr. Adhityan Appan
- It is high time that a resèarch scholar should summarise the available info on the origins of the Tamil language & confirm, that Tamil IS the oldest language in the world and continues to thrive to this day.
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- 30/12/2020
- Dr. Sindhu Sarala
- cant confirm something that isnt true. Sumerian script and egyptian hieroglyphs have historical context and physical evidence. Tamils have made up facts, nationalistic sentiments and boasting. Doesnt mean they are right.
- 22/01/2021
- Vasanth
- So dr sindhu .you think tamil is made up evidence.so does believing is made up evidence allover the world and in google they have accepted as tamil as oldest language. Please people just go see about kumarikandam in google this clears all you dout about why australia tribs speak tamil and why there is lot of similarities between aftrica and south indian and australia DNA. Please you as for proof right please go check for your self.. ones these aransas enter india they created dummy good and some stories.can you give a single proof of all those arrana god were real.no you cannot. Check about kumarikandam
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- 25/03/2021
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