Top Ten Oldest Language in The World

1.Tamil(தமிழ்)

Tamil is regarded as one of the oldest languages in the world. It is still in vast use. About 78 million people across the world still use this language as their medium of verbal communication. Tamil scripts can be found when we visit some of the oldest temples in rock sculptures, potsherds, and monuments built by the historical rulers around 3rd century BC -3rd century AD. the archaeological survey of India also discovered about 55,000 epigraphical inscriptions in the Tamil language. experts have presented the view that the origin of this language can be traced back to around 3500 BC because THOLKAPIYAM, a tamil work is dated around 2300-3100 BC.

Tamil was the first India language to be accorded status as a classical language of India by the government of India in 2004. It ranks 17th among  the top twenty of the world's most spoken language. UNESCO confirmed the two earliest manuscripts from Tamil in 1997 and 2005 . Tamil was created and developed in southern part of India.

It is a language group of the Dravidan language family. Surprisingly, because of its musical melody in language,it is suspected that Tamil passed to the following new generation by song rather than written words. Tamil literature has been described as "one of the great classical traditions and literature of the world".

2.Sanskrit(संस्कृतम्)

Research believe that Sanskrit, which heavily influenced many European languages, originated from Tamil. Sanskrit is the classical language of India, dating back to 3000 BC. Sanskrit is still one of India's official language, Although its use in the vernacular is limited. Sanskrit has its variants as Vedic and classical.

The total letters of Sanskrit alphabet are 49 letters with vowels, consonants, and semivowels.

It's language of Uttarakhand in the north (one of the Indian state). As the language is the combination of the sound vibrations, it is the mind and natural realm for mantra meditation. each letter has a particular sound which is described as "a particular god who manifest as that sound".

3.Egyptian(مصري)

Egyptian is the Oldest known  indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known, outside of Sumerian. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the from of Coptic. The national language of modern-day Egypt is is Egyptian Arabic, which gradually replaced Coptic as the language of daily life in the centuries after the Muslim conquest of Egypt. Coptic is still used as the liturgical language of the Coptic church. It has a handful of fluent speakers today.

Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. Egyptian is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of language and is related to barber and semitic (languages such as Arabic, amhari and hebrew). The language survived until the 5th century AD in the from of Demotic and until the middle ages in the from of coptic. Thus it had a lifespan of over four millennia. Egyptan is one of the oldest recorded languages known.

4.Greek(Ελληνικά)

The Greek language has a long and rich history stretching all the way from the thirteenth century B.C. to the present. the earliest form of the language is called "linear B"(13th century B.C.). The from Greek used by writers from homer (8th century B.C.) through Plato (4th century B.C.) is called "classical Greek." It was a marvelous form of the language, capable of exact expression and subtle nunces. Its alphabet was derived from the Phoenician's as was that of Hebrew. classical Greek existed in many dialects of which three were primary; Doric,Aeolic, and lonic(of which attic was a branch).

Athens was conquered in the fourth century B.C. by king Philip of Macedonia. Alexander the Great, Philip's son, who was tutored by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, set out the conquer the world and spread Greek culture and language. Because Alexander spoke attic Greek, it was this dialect that was spread. It was also the dialect spoken by the famouse Thenian writers. This was the beginning of the hellenistic age.

5.Chinese(中文)

The Chinese language is the oldest written language in the world with at least six thousand year of history. Chinese character inscriptions have been  found in turtle shells dating back to the shang dynasty (1766-1123 BC) proving the written language has existed for more than 3,000 years. The Chinese written language uses single distinctive symbols, or characters, to represent each word of the vocabulary. The vast majority of characters are written versions of spoken sounds that have meaning. A large dictionary usually contains 40,000 characters. One must be able to recognize 2,000 to 3,000 characters to read a newspaper. Although the written system has been altered over time due to revolutions and political change, the principles of the language along with symbols and characters have remained basically the same.

Although many Chinese dialects exist, the written language is a common form of communication. even though people are not able to verbally communicate in different provinces, they are able to understand each other in writing. however, the written language can be further subdivided into three forms: simplified , traditional and informal slang or phonetic. There is also a form called "pin-yin" which is the Chinese language transcribed using a roman spelling.

6.Hebrew(עִברִית)

Hebrew is an ancient semitic language. the earliest Hebrew texts date from the second millennium B.C.E. and evidence suggest that the Israelite tribes who invaded canaan spoke Hebrew. the language was likely a commonly spoken until the fall of Jerusalem in  the 587 B.C.E.

Once Jews were exiled Hebrew began to disappear as a spoken language, though it was still preserved as a written language for Jewish prayers and holy texts. During the second temple period Hebrew was most likely used only for liturgical purposes. parts of the Hebrew bible are written in Hebrew as is the mishnah, which is judaism's written record of the oral torah.

Since Hebrew was primarily used for sacred texts prior to its revival as a spoken language, it was often called "lashon ha-kodesh," which means "the holy language" in Hebrew. some believed that Hebrew was the language of the angels, while the ancient rabbis maintained that Hebrew was the language originally spoken by Adam and eve in the garden of Eden.
Jewish folklore says that all of humanity spoke Hebrew until the tower of babel, when God created all the languages of the world in response to humanity's attempt to build a tower that would reach the heavens.

7.Aramaic(ܐܪܡܝܐ)

Aramaic is the ancient language of the semitic family group, which includes the Assyrians, Babylonians, chaldeans, Arameans, Hebrews, and Arabs. In fact, a large part of the Hebrew and Arabic language is barrowed from Aramaic, including the alphabet. The modem Hebrew (square) script is called "Ashuri", "Ashuri" is the Hebrew name for Assyrian, the son of shem, the son of noah (genesis 10:22). Aramaic is quoted in the very first book of the bible, Berisheth (genesis) in chapter 31:47. In fact, many portions of the old Testament are penned originally in Aramaic, including Daniel chapter 2:4 thru chapter 7.

Tel Dan Inscription.

Medium:Basalt stele. Approximate Date: 9th-8th century B.C. place of Discovery: Tel Dan, Galilee, Israel. Current Location: Israel Museum, Jerusalem

The first known inscription of Aramaic date to the late tenth or early ninth century B.C. In a phenomenal wave of expansion, Aramaic spread over Palestine and Syria and large tracts of Asia and Egypt, replace many language, including akkadian and Hebrew. For about one thousand years it served as the official and written language of the near east, officially beginning with the conquest of the Assyrian empire, which had adopted Aramaic as its official language, replacing Akkadian.

8.Korean(한국어)

Korean is spoken by more than 72 million people living on the Korean peninsula. Although it differs slightly in spelling, alphabet, and vocabulary between the two region, Korean is the official language of  both south Korea and north Korea. Outside of the Korean peninsula, there about two million people in china who speak Korean as their first language, another two million in the united states, 700,000 in japan, and 500,000 in the Russian of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

The Korean language has five major dialects in south Korea and one in north Korea. Despite the geographical and socio-political dialect differences, Korean is relatively homogeneous, being mutually understandable among speakers from different areas. 

Originally written using "Hanja" (Chinese language), korean is now mainly spelled in "hangul",  the Korean alphabet. "Hangul" consists of 24 letters - 14 consonants and 10 vowels - that are written in blocks of 2 to 5 characters. Unlike the Chinese system (including Japanese "kanji"), "hangul" is not an ideographic system. The shapes of the individual "hungul" letters  were designed to model the physical morphology of the tongue, palate and teeth. Up to five letters join to form a syllabic unit.

9.Armenian(Հայերեն)

Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken in the caucasus mountains and also used by the Armenian diaspora. It is its own independent branch  of the family of the Indo-European languages. From ancient and moden languages, Indo-Iranian seems to be the most closely related to Armenian.

While it contains many Indo-European roots, its phonology has been influenced by neighboring caucasian language, so that it shares a three-way distinction between voiceless, voiced, and ejective stops and fricatives.

Armenian was historically split into two vaguely-defined primary dialects: Eastern Armenian, the form spoken in modern-day Armenia, and western Armenian, the form spoken by Armenians in Anatolia. After the Armenian Genocide, the western form was primarily spoken only by those belonging to the diaspora.

Armenian is written in the Aremenian alphabet, created by saint mesrop mashtots in 406 AD. The Armenians are a predominantly christian ethnic group, primarily of the Armenian church. Whether Armenians are europeans or not is a bone of contention, as the people of Caucasia have become increasingly disregarded as being Europeans over the past couple of centuries. This process was arguably accelerating as the term "European" increasingly is being used to refer to citizens of the European union rather than peoples of ethnic European origins, but the recent (2004) inclusion of Armenia in the EU "New Neighborhood", which is expected to lead to membership in the long term will once again swing the pendulum in the direction of Europe.

10.Latin(Latine)

The Latin language has survived in one form or another for over 2,000 years. It is both the cognate and parent of many modern languages. learn about the origin of Latin in this first article in a series of eight. The influence of the Roman empire throughout the world is undeniable. Art, poetry, music, and architecture have especially benefited from the ingenuity of a civilization that at one time spanned from Northan Africa to the waters of the British Isles. However, culture does not spread without communication, that necessary link to human exchange of knowledge called language. Like all languages, Latin's life stretches beyond Pre-history, its origin forever lost. what we do know about Latin survives to use in a sporadic collection of writings that only hint at the language's rich history.

Through the early part of the first millennium B.C., the Italian peninsula was subjected to string of wars and conflicts where multiple cultures battled for supermacy. The ebb and tide of some factions' strength made lasting impressions on the peninsula and influenced the beginning of the roman history to the extent that Latin almost surely would have perished had certain powers not won out over their rivals.