The 10 Oldest Languages Still Spoken In The World Today

[Dandelion]

If I could I would give you 1000 thumbs down Kazimiera for the crappish thread you posted.

No mention of Greek which is still spoken today but the Macedonian Slavic aka Bulgarian language is named. Really such a language exist?

The Hebrew language was evolved out of Aramaic and was influenced by Greek. Of course it has nothing to do with Old Hebrew which is incorrectly named so but should be called Eastern Phoenician and is identical to Archaic Greek.

You post a lot of crappish biased and factual incorrect threads lately.

You are incorrect about Hebrew. It's based on Biblical Hebrew and revived as a spoken everyday language. And Hebrew and Phoenician were argueably dialects of the same Canaanite language, that's how alike they were. Of course, Modern Hebrew has a modern lexicon adapted for our current age.

Just take a book about Biblical Hebrew and one about Modern Hebrew. You'll notice.

[Kamal900]

You are incorrect about Hebrew. It's based on Biblical Hebrew and revived as a spoken everyday language. And Hebrew and Phoenician were argueably dialects of the same Canaanite language, that's how alike they were. Of course, Modern Hebrew has a modern lexicon adapted for our current age.

Just take a book about Biblical Hebrew and one about Modern Hebrew. You'll notice.

I'm surprised that Arabic and Aramaic are not in the list. Arabic was a spoken language for more than 3,000 years, and was written down back in the 1st century BCE in the ancient city of Qaryat Al-Faw and in Petra which was built by the ancient Nabatean Arabs.

[Skomand]

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Germany is normally not associated with the "oldest" - should be "most conservative" - language. But the East-Prussian form of Lithuanian as taught in schools up to the 20th century is closest to Sanskrit some 3000 years back in the past.
Here is the example of the verb "to be" showing the complete preservation of the grammatical dual form.

[Queen B]

Where is Greek ?

[Kamal900]

Where is Greek ?

That's what I was going to say, lol. Greek is one of the oldest Indo-European languages in the world that the earliest written form of Greek was from the Mycenaean period in the Bronze age.

[DarkPhoenix]

These are cool language. Man I wish I spoke one

[Skomand]

That's what I was going to say, lol. Greek is one of the oldest Indo-European languages in the world that the earliest written form of Greek was from the Mycenaean period in the Bronze age.

It's about present-day use. Nobody speaks Old Greek today.

[Kamal900]

It's about present-day use. Nobody speaks Old Greek today.

Modern Greek evolved from Old Greek the same way modern English evolved from Old English or Anglo-Saxon that was brought to Britain by Germanic tribes in the early middle ages.

[TheForeigner]

Macedonian Slavic and Icelandic among the oldest in the world? No way!

[Queen B]

It's about present-day use. Nobody speaks Old Greek today.

Modern Greek is a simplified version of Ancient Greek. It isn't a different language