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Discover the world’s oldest languages that have survived for thousands of years, such as Hebrew, Tamil, and Basque. Learn how these ancient tongues have evol...
1 Σεπ 2010 · HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS. Old Tamil stands alongside Sanskrit as one of India's two classical languages. First attested about 254 BC, Old Tamil is the oldest recorded member of the Dravidian languages, a family which today encompasses twenty-four distinct languages.
In this scan of a QA from some paper, the writers say that Tamil might be one of the oldest still spoken languages possibly dating back to 10,000 years and then says that it could be the root of Sanskrit, which in turn could be the root of all other languages.
This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language.
An in-depth linguistic analysis of Tamil epigraphic texts will show how the Tamil language used in Tamil inscriptions constitutes an important diachronic evidence of both sociolinguistic and linguistic evolution.
Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. Tamil[b] (தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ⓘ) is a classical Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.
Tamil is identified as the oldest language based on evidence that it has been in use for over 5,000 years and has a vast body of literature. Sanskrit, which influenced many European languages, originated from Tamil and dates back 3,000 years.
