Have ever wondered where today's languages originated
And which ones are the oldest languages like everything else in the world have evolved over time and today
I'm looking at the five oldest languages in the world
How's it going?
Everybody my name is Leroy Kenton and welcome to another episode of FTD facts and the oldest language has been a debatable topic
For as long as I can remember
Given the fact that before written language there was no 100% accurate method in dating what languages were spoken
First in any case we did our best to make this video as accurate as possible
Now question for you guys before I start is what languages. Do you speak let me know down below?
Starting this video off at number five is Greek now all prominent
Philosophers and scholars of the world used to think speak and write in Greek the language dates back to around
1500 BC and while modern Greek has evolved considerably
From ancient times it's still one of the most historic living languages
and there are over thirty four centuries worth of records in the written word and
The majority of English words come from Greek as well as Latin modern Greek is often said to have started in the Year
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Today it's the official language of Greece and Cyprus
Now we got Sumerian at number four so many people think that the ancient Sumerian language is the most
Ancient language in the world it's not however Sumerian is the oldest language for which we have written
Samples it was used by the people of Sumer before the second millennium
BCE and it's not related to any other language existing right now
Sumerian continued to be used in written documents well after the spoken language was taken over by
Akkadian language and is one thing to know that the Sumerian language never extended much beyond southern Mesopotamia
moving on now to
Egyptian so the Egyptian language is known to be derived from the afro-asiatic
Languages and dates back to 3400 BC the ancient Egyptians writings are known as high
Glyphs and these symbols of hieroglyphics used to represent
Objects that existed in ancient Egypt according to some scholars the concept of writing words was first developed in
Mesopotamia and came to Egypt through trading now this next one is very debatable at number 2 we have the Tamil language
Now this is one of the oldest surviving
Languages in the world it belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages native to the Indian subcontinent
The earliest use of the tamil language can be traced back to 300 BC but its origins is believed to be around
2500 BC
The Tamil language is older than
Sanskrit and Tamil words exist in many other languages so many scholars say that Tamil is the mother of all languages
today over 78 million people in the world speak Tamil so yeah in terms of now the
oldest language in the world well that goes to
Hebrew Hebrew dates back to the 10th century BCE and is an ancient Semitic language, which is a branch of the afro-asiatic?
language group and spoken by over
330 million people across Western Asia and North Africa now
There's a controversial study in 2016 that reported that the Israelites in Egypt took
22 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and turned them into the Hebrew alphabet
Over 3800 years ago making it the oldest language in the world now
There are currently over 9 million Hebrew speakers in the world today
Ok guys so that wraps up this episode on the oldest
Languages in the world now before I get on out of here
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