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What is the world's oldest language still spoken today?

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Of course it is impossible to say how long a language has been spoken, but we can answer the question which language that is still spoken today has the longest written record - in other words: for which we have the oldest proof that is was used. I think that there two possible candidates for this title.

LA Dodgers Hawaiian Shirt. It the probably the second-oldest recorded language in history. The oldest texts date from 3200 BC. Although the oldest texts in Sumerian date from the same period, most scholars believe that Sumerian started to be written earlier. However, the question is how far we can consider Egyptian a language that is still spoken. Coptic, the youngest form of Baseball MLB Team 3D Print LA Dodgers Hawaiian Shirt, was spoken until the 18th Century AD, but it is still in use as the liturgical language in the Coptic Church. It is written in the Coptic script which is closely related to the Greek script. So it is spoken during church services and there are people who learn it. I have studied both classic Middle Egyptian and Coptic myself. I know of a group of scholars in Egypt who try to converse in Coptic and it even said that it has been revived somewhere in Middle Egypt and some families speak in daily life.

Greek. The oldest surviving texts in an Archaic form of Greek were found on Crete in a script called Linear B and date from the 15th Century BC, which makes it the oldest written Gnomes LA Dodgers Hawaiian Shirt Christmas Gift For Baseball Lovers language after Hittite, that has died out over 3000 years ago. After the so-called dark centuries Greek reappeared as a written language in the 8th Century and flourished with authors like Homer and Hesiod. From then on it was written in the Greek script that is still in use today. I have studied both Ancient and Modern Greek and I can confirm that it has changed a lot over the course of time. However it is still recognizable as the same LA Dodgers Hawaiian Shirt Buehler 21 Shirts https://medium.com/@braxtonmarceaux123/what-is-the-worlds-oldest-language-still-spoken-today-a712725a0f9a







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