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• January 13th, 2009

  What is the oldest language still spoken?

  No one knows this answer. There is no way to know. There are many cultures that had spoken a language long before creating a written language. Therefor, there is no documentation as to how long the language had been spoken for. One thing for sure however, the answer in NOT Hebrew. Albanian is by far older. Sumarian or Egyptian are, as far as we know, the oldest written languges. The most well documented languages where born first in Asia, as well as in Africa. Chinese can very well be the oldest language still spoken. Tamil, and Sanskirt also are possibly the oldest language still spoken. There is no way to definitively prove one over the other. However, there is enough documentation to prove that these languages are older then Hebrew, much older. Language itself is estimated to have evolved about 100,000 bc.
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