GEN130 - The 10 Oldest Living Languages
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- This video speculates about the historical development of languages and present a list of 10 languages that have been around for some time and have undergone relatively little change. The list is certainly disputable and is supported by the languages in languageindex.org (developed by the VLC Team).
Any Chellam *Tamil* ✨ *தமிழ்* kutties 🔥🙌🔥
I proudly say tamilan
Tamil is an emotion..
and the worlds oldest language still spoken my family speaks it
@@Mgameing123 it isn't the worlds oldest language still spoken.
Stop spreading misinformation
@@BIP101 Then which lang is it ?
@@BIP101 go and google it... You may get the answer
Tamizh is a language, Culture, Civilisation, Tradition and more on......
'Tamil' is not only a language,it has it's own religion,culture and literature in itself. "தமிழ் எங்கள் உயிருக்கு நேர்"
I cannot believe this man did not mention Greek. That’s mine blowing. You wanna talk about a classical language that has still remained to this day as a native language of millions of people.
Sanskrit tooo
@@SK-ol7nv bro are you kidding me.
Sanskrit is a dead language.
He was talking about oldest living languages😅
I was wondering why Greek never gets a mention too.
@@SK-ol7nv You Indians never shut up about Sanskrit..
நரம்புகள் அனைத்திலும் அறம் என்னும் உரம் தான். 💖💖💖
Tamilan...💪💪💪
Tamzhil❤
Tamil's first literature dates back before 350B.C. Tamil is older than the Harappan and Sumerian Civilisations. Archaeological discoveries in Tamil Nadu indicate there have been Tamil settlements dating back to 500B.C
That’s not very far back. Harappan civilization goes as far back as 3500BC. And settlements go as far back as 7300BC
@@aaronsayd292 Thamizh words has been mentioned in even the Vedas . Former Indian Archaeological Dept Chief BB Lal has stated that Thamizh was the language spoken throughout the Indus Valley .
There r even proofs of that, Countries like Pakistan Afghanistan and States like Gujarat Maharashtra Odisha Andhra Pradesh Karnataka and Kerala have Tamizh names for their cities and settlements. Ex: Tamool, Vanji, Kaanji, Cheranvali, Madharai, Korkai, Musiri. These names I have mentioned are still in Place in Tamil Nadu and have been mentioned even during the early Script Structure of Tamizh, i.e, Tamizhi. The excavations in Tamil Nadu have proved it's history dates back to 5,000 years, let alone the time it would have needed to even develop a Language. Tamizh attained it's classical language status as early as the first Tamizh literature and it may date back to even before that. If u r talking about Sanskrit, it came into existence only in the 1st century BC. And BC is calculated backwards
@@aaronsayd292 Man r u mad? The earliest date of Harappa dates back to 3300 BC. It's the Indus valley civilization that precedes it around 2000 years. U have confused 7th century BC with 7th Millennium BC.
Deepan T there are sites that are far older than 3500 BC. Look it up. If we’re talking about just settlements then there are sites going back 10,000 years in the Middle East.
Deepan T Prior to Sanskrit was Proto Indo-Aryan. Prior to that was Proto Indo-Iranian. Prior to that was the Proto Indo-European language. And I’m sure there was something even older. Languages evolve over time so maybe Tamil hasn’t changed much but other languages have. So you can’t really say one is older than the other because they all have an unbroken chain to an earlier language.
அன்புத் தமிழர்களே!!, நீங்கள் கட்டாயம் படிக்கவேண்டியது:-
நீங்கள் இடும் கருத்துக்களை முடிந்தவரை தயவுசெய்து தமிழில் #தமிழ் எழுத்துக்களில் மட்டுமே இடுங்கள்...
இது ஒரு தாழ்மையான வேண்டுகோள்...
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ஏனெனில், [கூகுள், பேசுபுக்கு, யூட்டியூப், துவிட்டர், இலிங்டின், இன்சுடாகிராம், ஆமேசான் போன்றவை நிறைந்த] *இணைய ஞாலத்தினுள்*, தமிழானது, எந்த அளவிற்கு நம்மால் நாள்தோறும் *புழங்கப்படுகிறதோ*, அந்த அளவிற்கு தமிழின் முதன்மையையும் இன்றியமையாமையையும் உணர்ந்து, அரசுகளும் பன்னாட்டு நிறுவனத்தார்களும் தங்களது சேவைகளை தமிழில் அளிக்க முன்வருவர்..
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காரணம், இன்று அனைத்து முடிவுகளும் '#பெருந்தரவு'கள், #செயற்கை_நுண்ணறிவு மற்றும் #புள்ளியியல்_கணக்குகள் ஆகியவற்றின் அடிப்படையிலேயே எடுக்கப்படுகின்றது, என்பதைத் தெளிவாக அறிந்துகொள்ளுங்கள்...
நாமெல்லாம் தொடர்ந்து இணையம் வாயிலாக எழுதிடும் இடுகைகளானவை, பெருநிறுவனங்களுக்கும் அரசுகளுக்கும், நம் மொத்த மக்களின் விருப்புவெறுப்புகளையும் நம் எண்ணப்போக்குகளையும் கணிக்கப் பயன்படும் பெருந்தரவுகளாக அமைந்துவிடுகின்றன என்பதைப் புரிந்துகொள்ளுங்கள்..
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மலையாளிகளும் வங்காளிகளும் பஞ்சாபிகளும் இந்தப்புரிதலோடு தமது பேரும்பாலான இடுகைகளை தத்தங்கள் மொழிகளின் எழுத்துக்களிலே இடுகின்றனர்..
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விழித்திடுங்கள் தமிழர்களே!!..
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[..அதற்காக, பிறமொழிகளை வெறுக்கவேண்டும் என்பதல்ல இதன் பொருள்..]
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இதில் உடன்பாடு கொண்டவர்கள் ஓரு "விருப்பத்தை" 👍 இடுங்கள்... இச்செய்தியை (பிற தளங்களிலும் உள்ள) மற்றவர்களுக்கும்/நண்பர்களுக்கும் தவறாமல் *பகிர்ந்திடுங்கள்*...
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மற்றொரு வேண்டுகோள்: உங்கள் வட்டார வழக்கிற்கும் முதன்மை அளியுங்கள்..
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யாராவது இதைப்பார்த்து தங்களை திருத்திக்கொள்ள மாட்டார்களா என்ற ஒரு ஏக்கம் தான்..
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பார்க்க:-
. ௧) www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
. ௨) www.adweek.com/digital/facebooks-top-ten-languages-and-who-is-using-them/amp/
. ௩) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet
. ௪) www.oneskyapp.com/blog/top-10-languages-with-most-users-on-facebook/
. ௫) speakt.com/top-10-languages-used-internet/
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இதற்கான.இணைப்பு: link.medium.com/L5oj9LfFA8
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நன்றி.
தாசெ,
நாகர்கோவில்
நீங்க உண்மை தான் பேசுகிறாய். என்று அன்புடன் உன்னுடைய மாநிலத்தின் அண்டை மாநிலமான கேரளாவில்லிருந்து ஒரு நண்பன்.
@@sheelaunnikrishnan741 വളരെ നന്നി.
please add Sample video for Tamil and re upload the video back, if you want any one to read tamil for you tell me know
Fascinating. Thanks for the video. I agree it is hard to be definitive about which languages are the oldest, but your list is at least reasonable. I wonder if some of the aboriginal languages of Australia might be older, but since they didn’t write we can never tell. Also, Chinese characters may have been in use 3000 years ago but we can’t know if they were pronounced in anything like the modern way.
I thought this channel was more professional and insightful that it has just demonstrated to me. To claim that Macedonian is one of the oldest language in the world is nothing else but ridiculous. It is known to everyone that prior to 1945 Macedonian was referred to as a Bulgarian language by both native and foreign linguists. What is more, it was an artificially created twang which is a mix of some of the westernmost Bulgarian dialects and some Serbian words, which per se form a linguistic continuum anyway, which the narrator as a native German speaker should be perfectly familiar with.
Exactly. My great grandmother used to tell us it was completely reformed and that they would read and write like us Serbs did before they were forced the new grammar upon themselves. It wasn't quite Bulgarian, but she would tell us the differences between Serbian and this Macedonian language was minimal as the grammar was nothing like the modern one.
As for the channel, EA languages could have made it to the list...
There were many misconceptions that have been proven false. The older belief about Macedonian may or may not be one of them.
Official Macedonian language is artificially made by communists who wanted to diminish Serbian influence in Yugoslavia as much as possible.
OMG.. Can you at least listen to what he says??? He does not say it is the oldes language in the World. He said that Slavonic branch is young. It evolved from Old church Slavonic language which is close to present day Macedonian. Period. Where is the anger from?
@@deimanterepsaite9014 the only one who knows what he is talking 👍👍🇲🇰🇲🇰
Beyond shocked and disappointed there was no mention of any Australian Aboriginal languages which date back at least 13k years or mention of isolated island tribe languages like Sentinelese... and the mother of all oldest living languages the Khoisan click languages. Hopefully you do a follow up video to this
Macedonian isn`t s a language. It`s Bulgarian`s dialect.
He didn't mention Modern Greek which is spoken since 11th century, but he mentioned "Macedonian" which is a language formed in the 20th century. This guy is a total joke.
Thank you
I could listen to Professor Handke all day. He is a terrific teacher.
Thanks a lot. Very motivating comment.
@@oer-vlc I've listened to hundreds (perhaps it's in the thousands at this point) lecturers and you are one of the best. You have a very engaging style.
Όμοιος ομοίω κι η κοπριά στα λάχανα.
There are many other languages that are older than the ones mentioned. Just because they changed throughout history, does not mean they are not older. For example, Greek, Chinese, Armenian, and so on.
FYROMian is just a dialect of Bulgarian so Bulgarian could also be said to be the direct descendant of OCS.
Hi, very interesting video. I just wanted to point out that the Basque language is called ‘euskara’ , not euskal (which would be more of an adjective). Cheers!
When u an Arab can still understand an Arabic text from 2700 years and still it doesnt mention ur language: 👁👄👁
Did you watch the final part of the video? czcams.com/video/mPywBLzlTfI/video.html
We do understand that most Aboriginal people have stories which go back 13,000 years, right? Where their words and sound shifts may not be that old, those peoples were encoding stories THROUGH those migrations coming through the Indonesian islands from SouthEast Asia. I don't know how old the Pama-Nyungan languages are, but they have to be UP THERE as the tongues of the second oldest people on Earth.
DV8 2 LECM when people say oldest language it's based off Western society view. People who have religious power and education. Meaning written language. Obviously other indigenous Paleolithic tribes are older than middle east languages but they have no written system
@@scalabrineplayoff3pt46curr7 I don't "Western society view" is correct since I've seen significantly more discussion of "oldest languages" from South Asian people than I've ever seen from Westerners (I'm from the United States).
Why are no African Languages mentioned? surely the cradle of humanity must have some of the oldest spoken languages, surely?!!?
I am afraid "Hebrew" in English is not pronounced in this way, Juergen
The video was ready when I realized that it must be /'hi:bru;/; we will use that for an exceptional letter-sound relation in PDE where ... eb ... normally is realized as / ... ed .../.
it doesn't matter!
spoiler
I know that. Immediately after the recording it was pointed out to me that I was wrong. So, here is the chance for the community to learn from my mistake. :)
Maybe it will be the pronunciation of the future! !!!
Nicely made video :) I do like it as well as other videos on this channel but I do want to say that the Finnish language in Finnish is 'suomi'. 'Suomalainen' means a Finnish person, not the language.
I'm surprised khoisan with the clicks wasn't on the list. their culture is so old and hasn't been influenced by other civilizations
Björn Ironside yh i was surprised too its the oldest living folk among all other folks. Their DNA is the closest to the oldest fosils of Homo Sapiens Sapiens wich were only found ad this place
Sharann for sure, you are so right
Björn Ironside Most linguists believe clicks arose pretty late. That they evolved from complex consonant clusters. If they were a primitive feature they would arise everywhere. Also "oldest people" makes no sense. All because they stayed in the area people come from. Doesn't mean their genes quit changing. DNA doesn't know if it's moving or not.
Likewise I am surprised he omitted aboriginal languages Australia, the Americas, the island of New Guinea, and many other African languages
The whole presentation was Eurocentric, Even allowing for the final suggestion of Chinese, with the exception of Farsi,, his list of Asian language are descended from Prot=European.
What part of England are you from? Your accent sounds familiar but I didn't hear it since one of my primary school teachers.
He is a german
I don't understand why indigenous languages of the Americas were not considered. Quechua should definitely have been mentioned because of its long history and current status.
The video seemed a bit narrow in geographical scope
Well, greek is definitely older than Afrikaans.
Well, this guy is uneducated or a propagandist
Yes but old greek and modern greek are different languages. you can't understand old greek with knoweledge of modern greek
modern greek words have at least two ancient greek words inside of them. Ex Αλέξω in ancient greek means (prevent or block) in modern greek this word have been fused with other ancient words. Ex. Αλεξίπτωτο which means parachute, get it? :) Αλέξω and πτώση (prevent and falling) or αλεξί and πτωτό (it's the same, don't ask me how it's a greek thing) became parachute. So the ancinet greek language never died, it just became shorter. We still speak it but a little bit different :P
nah man Afrikaans are older then greek :D, Greek is baby languages only live for couple thousand of years, before it died and what is greek now its not that... ur Greek nowdays is not ancient greek...
@@dato9504 Greek is a continual language never stopped to be spoken since the ancient times. Reading Hellenistic Koine is pretty much the same as modern Greek but of course with a more complicated grammar. The 9th century Old English (Anglo-Saxon) is much more distant from present-day English, than modern Greek from ancient Attican
Why is greek not included ?
Like Latin, Greek (classic) is no longer "living" in the true sense
What about Modern Greek? Modern Greek has evolved from Ancient Greek and a Modern Greek speaker can fully read an ancient text and understand more than 60% of it. The vocabulary is pretty much the same, it's only the grammar that has changed so much but still it's the same language, it should have been included.
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Because he is clueless.
Mentioning a laguage like Fyromian which is a communist era cration among the oldest languages is pure ignorance. Greek has been uninterruptedly spoken in the same area for over 4000 years and written for about 3500 years and he just forgot it.
This guy is a total tool. Greek has the longest recorded uninterrupted literary history. Even some of the Linear B tablets can be understood by modern Greeks and are composed of words unchanged and still in use by Greeks nowadays. Seriously, this bozo shouldn't post videos.
Looks like Greek was far too obvious for him lol
I am Lithuanian, and now I know I have bragging rights and I speak 3 languages at 12(Lithuanian,English,russian).
nice
im lithuanian too
@@tautvydasjuska6769 sveiks
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Lithuanian language has survived for 100 00 years... So we get the tittle for the Oldest living languages in the whole world coz all other languages are copy of our language (y). Like English has 75k words that are actually ours.
Do you know anything about the possible connection between Japanese and Finnish? I went to Finland for the first time this year and after hearing the language for the first time, recognized it as sounding something like Japanese. Even the spellings of Japanese using our alphabet sort of looks like Finnish. So I searched the internet a little bit and found some information suggesting a connection due to migrations of Siberian people east and west.
As a native speaker of Japanese, that's an interesting observation. I've been to Finland and didn't see the connection.
BrightBlue1111 The only connection is that both are phonetic languages. They are entirely unrelated to each other.
A connection between Japanese and Finnish would require a massive extension of the Altaic hypothesis, which is a fringe theory already rejected by the vast majority of mainstream linguists.
@@grahamh.4230 yes I first heard about this in John McWorter’s book on how languages develop and change over time.
Macedonian has very little to do with OCS. It can be considered very close to modern Bulgarian - the grammar of which is not even indo-european, as it comes from the language of the Bulgars, the origins of which are debated, but many think it is related to Turkic. On the other hand the vocabulary of Bulgarian and Macedonian is slavic.
The slavic language which Cyril and Methodius got to know, was not influenced by Bulgars, it was close to common slavic of that period.
All the confusion comes from the writings of some russian scholars, who called OCS "Old Bulgarian". This was sort of convenient to the pan-slavic movement, inspired by russian imperialism, while in fact of the modern languages Russian is the closest to OCS - because the latter was the liturgical language of the Orthodox Church.
The influence/substrate of Tatar/Turkish isn’t it?
@@sebastienlopezmassoni8107 I would not attribute this to Tatars and Turks. They conquered many other Slavic tribes and there is not much influence over those languages. Maybe some vocabulary, yet the core grammar stayed intact.
With Bulgarian / Macedonian we can even trace the uniqueness (the loss of Slavic case system) to the founders of Bulgarian nation - Kubrat, Asparuh, being turkic Bulgars. These names are still in use in Bulgaria and practically absent in other Slavic countries.
I loved your list.
It had a lot of good picks. =)
Interesting presentation! How about an honorable mention for Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus and still spoken in pockets of Syria today?
Wasa bista are you nepalese ?
modern greek is being spoken in the area since 11th century back in the byzantine era that makes MODERN greek older than half of the languages mentioned in this video i guess the creator is just ignorant
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I was just waiting if he was going to mention Georgian....and whala!!!
FYI, the term is voilà. It is a French word meaning 'here is, this, there it is'.
Has any language changed more than English?
How about Greek? Greeks can read ancient Greek, unless you interviewed someone who cannot read at all.
If what you call "Macedonian" is on your list, why not Greek? Actually "Macedonian"/Bulgarian (two variants of one language, not two languages) is the most evolved among Slavic languages from its proto state.
@hiooxkrmagkis9323 Well, if that's true, it's because Modern Standard Arabic is an invented form intended to resemble Quranic Arabic. The myriad of mutually unintelligible or semi-intelligible varieties of Arabic that differ extensively should indicate that your idea is absolutely bogus.
comment section for this video went pretty much how I expected lol
When you show people speaking these languages, it would be helpful to show subtitles in the viewer's native language. While it wouldn't help us to relate that language to our tongue, it would help us identify individual words.
The Yolngu have probably been living in the same place for around 50,000 years and other Aboriginal Australians have lived in their lands for similar amounts if time (though this time becomes shorter the further south you go).
In the video description it says: "The list is certainly disputable". We know it is. But it is amazing how speakers feel when their mother tongue is not mentioned in a specific list (oldest, most widely spoken, first, easiest, endangered, and many more). In Fromkin/Rodman (An Introduction to lamnguage) we find a similar debate about the world's "first" language where people are upset if it is not theirs.
Proud to be a tamilian
Tamil tiger 🐅🇱🇰 respect from Albanian 🦅🇦🇱
If we look at the roots of the words of cultivation tools and find in them the words stone or rock, we will discover the antiquity of a language. This is the case of Basque or Euskara. The word "aitz" means stone. We find it in:
1-"aizkora" (axe), which literally means "stone + above";
2-"aitzurra", "stone + plow".
And many others...
0:25 "no distinct breaking point"
May be somewhat true for spoken language, but false for written ones, and the spoken ones tend to change quicker around a break in or absence of written language.
Latin in Gaul tended to use certain latinisms or classicisms as a higher register, when Latin was its written language, and to loose these (but keep others) when there was a vacuum (lingua latina Rustica mentioned 813) or when French became a written language (from Song of St. Eulalia, Chanson de Roland and on).
hidden history of eastern Europe's Sarmatian roots. Especially of those countries of Baltic regions, such as Lithuania and Latvia. It seems that Lithuania have survived the most of it's Sarmatian roots such as the oldest Indo-European language, many artifacts that are being discovered in Lithuania's region and very old Aryan traditions.
Sarmatians were Iranian tribes to begin with. Martynai, apsijuoksi kaip apsijuokia baltarusiai su savo litvinizmu.
If humans migrated out of Africa, would you not find the oldest languages in that continent?
Dan Kuo-You would if they still existed currently in that ancient form, but most languages change over the centuries. Those mentioned here are distinctive in having survived “unchanged” for so long. Apparently African languages have evolved enough that none qualify as unchanged by this gentleman’s reckoning.
Lithuania language is the oldest among all the languages that is still used in the modern age as it was before all the languages. But the country it self is really small and around 2,5 million people that live there.
Is it the language the first humans in Africa were speaking?
Lithuanian is quite close to Late PIE but not the oldest. For example, Celtic languages, have some archaic features even if they are not that conservative. In a way, all languages are old, apart from the contstucted ones.
In Greece, there are some 'pre-Greek' words, that imho, have parallels with both PIE and Finnic, for example a word today pronounced ofthalmos 'eye', taking into account ancient alternative types, the modern Tsakonian one etc points to something like okw-tsalm-os, which is imo apparently related to Slavic oko, Lithuanian akis and protoFinnic silma at the same time, but that is not accepted.
Either way, European languages have words that are of Palaeolithic origin ultimately but not exclusively European, even though I believe the Gravettian culture has influenced directly and indirectly all West Eurasian languages.
Only hypothetical. Indo-european as well as any old Lithuanian language is not attested
I find it strange he didn't mention Arabic
He said many false things. I think he wanted to promote something else through this video.
i think you forgot about Greek and Arabic
dude, classic Greek is dead language.
@Remoh Nospmis Where did I said that Greeks do not understand it?
@@dublux9878 even so MODERN greek is being spoken in the area since 11th century thats older tha half of the languages in this bs video
there are many living indigenous languages that have been spoken for millennia
One big correction.. Tamil language was not just 300 years before Christ.. Ancient Inscription shows it has continuous history more than 5000 years ago. Tamil sangam era itself started around that time.
Recent archeological and scientific evidences shows that Ancient tamil civilization dates back to 600 BCE. But the thing is the Tamil brahmi script found in tamil nadu and indus script from indus valley civilization have some links which is being studied in detail right now. So tamil's ancientness might get way back to 3000 BCE if more conclusive evidences are found through ongoing excavations.
Yes , Tamil is the oldest language in the world. it is the special of the language in the world as it is spoken by millions of people around the world.
Not anymore...
Not anymore
@Navinkumaran Mutharaiyar நவீன்குமரன் முத்தரையர் Tamil has changed so much over years that its way to far from santskrit. But your right its probbly older but it's no longer ancient as tamil is now...
No way. Even next-door neighbour Telugu claims to be older.
@@peterbruce01 Ask the Telugu neighbour when a literary work was first published in Telugu language, as far as I know it was 11th century when Nannaya translated Ramayana in Telugu, if you find any earlier literature please post the link.
Do a video on Albanian! it's an unknown language in the middle of Europe and southern Italy
Use our language index: languageindex.online.uni-marburg.de/, we have three Albanian samp0les in it.
Huge factual flaw and logical flaw in this video: all languages are equally old in that all ways of speaking today are the current result of our very first words. The concept of new or old language is a false construct. You are creating false discontinuity - there is no beginning or end to a language, At no time do a people stop talking and then just start fresh from scratch. This is like saying there is a new ethnic group or an old one - nope, we're all equally ancient descendants of the first humans. There's too much false ideology parading as science today.
Egyptien are not arabic they have the pharaon language(gypti), north african they have berber language. I think that you want only to show that Israel exists 😉😉
How old is Gaelic did he say?
What the heck why is nobody speaking about the tamazigh language? It’s one of the oldest languages in the world ? It’s even older than Chinees ?
Tamil is not older than Chinese. Tamil is about 2500 years old, whereas Chinese is over 3000 years old.
They are the Tifinagh is older then 2500 years old lamo
@@fushiigso7145 Tamil is 2500 years old
Any one of scores of currently spoken and written Australian languages have an unbroken tradition tens of thousands of years older than the languages you mention, they having been spoken for up to 60,000 years.
Welsh is older than Irish. It is on the Brythonic isolative branch of Celtic languages and has more Gaul words in it than Irish. Irish gets all the kudos because of the states but fewer people speak Irish than Welsh despite the island of Ireland having more than twice the population. Despite being a different language from a different language family group, Irish is often used as the default Celtic language because of again the USA.
Irish is old though and very beautiful. What evidence is their for the antiquity of Basque. As the man said, myth. It is older than Latin sure but so are so many other languages.
you didn’t put Arabic in your list , but you had to take a decision right lol
Probably the least changed modern tongue is Sentinelese, by dint of extended isolation.
I do not think it's fair to say that Irish was spoken on the island of Great Britain before Germanic influences. It might suggest to some people that it predates Welsh or that it was spoken across the island, generally. When, in fact, it does not predate Welsh on the island of Great Britain (though its literary heritage on the island of Ireland may predate surviving records of written Welsh, the surviving records of a written Goidelic language on Great Britain do not predate those of Welsh), and it was only spoken in a handful of communities on the west coast of Great Britain before Germanic influence. By the time that we have influences coming in from Anglo-Saxon and Norse, the Goidelic language spoken in Wales would have died out and the Goidelic language spoken in Scotland would be better described as Scottish Gaelic, and not as Irish.
What about Tamazight or Berber the northern African language?
Why no tamil sample?
Because they are shame people and no one wanted to appears to talk....lol.....
Man, fuck Tamil. Nobody cares about you.
Patrox Abertosa fuck you bro
Abhinav Nambiar
Νο, you are annoying so fuck YOU.
Patrox Abertosa shut your stupid ass up and get a job.
I thought Ainu was one of the oldest languages on the world. I'm not talking about writing of course, but being spoken
what about the native languages of the americas?
No mention of Welsh?
What about Armenian?
Siranush Հայերեն եվ հուներեն ինքը տեղի չի դնում : Քարտեզը սխալներ ունի իրա մոտ : IMHO սաղ իրա մոտ: )))
Coptic, the latest form of Egyptian.
Why is it not on the list?
Depends on if it's a seperate language or a dialect.
Grover S. Krantz: The Hungarians are the progenitors of European civilization
Grover S. Krantz (1931-2002), a world-renowned American anthropologist and professor at Washington State University, in his work "The Geographical Formation of European Languages", recognizes Hungarian, which until now has been treated as a stepchild of Europe, as the founder of Europe's civilization.
According to him, the u.n. "Indo-European languages" developed very late in Europe. That is why 30% of their vocabulary is not of "Indo-European" origin, and there are no "Indo-European" river names on the early maps of Europe.
We are more interested in the following sentence: "...so the Greek language was formed in its current location in 6500 BC, and the Celtic language in Ireland in 3500 BC. The antiquity of the Hungarian language in the Carpathian Basin is similarly surprising; I find that its origins lead to the Mesolithic, preceding the Stone Age."
Furthermore: "At least on one important point, the theory of people's migration is the opposite of the previous theorem. It is generally believed that the Hungarians of the Urals lived in the 9th century. century, they moved into the Carpathian basin from an eastern area. I find that all groups speaking the Uralic language spread from Hungary, in a much earlier age, in the opposite direction."
Grover S. Krantz, The Geographical Formation of European Languages. (Ősi Örökségünk Alapítvány, Budapest, 2000) Original title and publisher of the work: Geographical Development of European Languages Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York 1988. Translated by: Imre Kálmán
how about berber, how much old compared to the others?
The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form: A a. B b.
The Latin alphabet used by the Romans (during the Classical Latin period, from the 1st century BCE) had only 23 different letters, which were what we now call uppercase or capital letters: A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z
By today’s standards, this would truly be one of the easiest alphabets in the world to learn. The letters J, W, and U were added much later to write languages other than Latin, and lowercase letters developed gradually around the 6th century CE.
According to surveys, the percentage of modern English words derived from each language group are as follows:
Latin ≈29%
French ≈29%
Germanic ≈26%
Greek ≈6%
Others ≈10%
Which Latin language has the most letters of the alphabet?
Slovak alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Slovak language.
It has 46 letters which makes it the longest Slavic and European alphabet.
Learn the Slovak language - is the most simple and logical grammar structured of all the Slavic languages conlang ever.
Macedonian language?? If you mean the one they used back in ancient time then it was Doric Greek. The one that they use in FYROM is Slavic. Slavs appeared 7th AD ...you people have no clue what you're talking about.
Why not even a passing mention of "Coptic" or Egyptian?
justcarcrazy exactly! It is the current form of Egyptian that has been around longer than the Pyramids.
Is Egyptian still spoken to this day? The official language of Egypt is a dialect of Arabic, but there may be some speakers of Egyptian or at least a language descended from Egyptian. After all Berber languages are still spoken in some parts of the Western Sahara.
Lukurd the Eternal Gaul
The liturgical language of the Coptic Church,and the guy did mention Coptic in passing,somewhere in the video.
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berber languages is spoken across north africa also in some big cities not only sahara
Does anyone speak conversational Coptic now days?
what about any of the Khoisan languages? Current versions exist among some of the most isolated peoples in Africa, some of whom seem to have been in place there since the paleolithic. And it certainly sounds about as alien and different as languages can get.
The earliest samples of Chinese are oracle bones dated back to 1300 BC. Still not making Chinese the oldest language, but much older than your source told you.
Chinese is not a language. It's a group of dozens of languages, and Old Chinese is completely incomprehensible to any speaker of present day Chinese languages, just like comparing English from today to English from 1000+ years ago.
You could not find example of Macedonian or what ?
Wieso ist Albanisch nicht in der Liste? Die Sprache ist älter als 2000 Jahre alt und ist sogar mit der noch etwas älteren Sprache Ilyrisch Verwand, zudem hat sie sich in den letzten 1000 Jahren kaum verändert. Es hätte das Video noch ein bisschen interessanter gemacht, wenn du es mit eingebracht hättest.
Ansonsten fande ich das Video ziemlich Interessant und besonders toll fande ich, dass du noch 2 Beispiel Sätze bei jeder Sprache eingebaut hast, damit man einen kleinen Einblick bekommt wie sie klingt.
I would have thought Greek would be on this list.
I think Ancient Greek is pretty different to modern Greek
@@peterlavery8830 Modern Greek is the evolution stage. All languages change form,l throughout the years. We can still read ancient Greek and we have a whole dictionary worth of words in common.
Where is the sumerian language ?
@@KingSargon96 -- No one today speaks Sumerian.
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LoL idiot Sumerian is the oldest language you tamil bhakt
I like it.
But farsi has an extremely high number of Arabic words, so it has changed a lot over the years. Apparently the dari language that they speak in Afghanistan is closer to original Persian language.
Ali Shah Same thing, different name.
The Inuktitut languages are by far the oldest. The Inuit have been Isolated for about 10,000 years, and it probably goes back to the language spoken before the ice age.
Someone shed some light please. How is Lithuanian the oldest Indo-European language? What happened to Armenian?
What about aramaic?
Ivrith is a "constructed" language based on ancient hebrew documents. It hasn't been spoken (as an every day language) for at least 2000yrs and became "resurrected" after WWII.
No wonder it didn't change much over centuries. The miracle is how it was possible to take a mammout off the permanent frozen ice and bring it back to life. But you should consider the differences between biblical and everyday-hebrew too. It's a kind of one-way: A ivrith-speaker understands ancient hebrew, but an ancient-hebrew-speaker, stepping out of a time-machine today would have many problems to understand the modern version.
I'd like to understand language development and relationships in comparison to the development of alphabets and writing systems and grammatical systems. It seems to me that if a language is spoken only then it would naturally undergo tonal simplification, as happened to Anglo-Saxon after the Normal Conquest when it became spoken only by peasants that could neither read nor write it, which then caused the language to lose its complex declentions and gender forms.
So, my point is, that an analysis like this could reveal further deeper relationships between peoples and their movements and bewteen their written and spoken forms.
So, for example, I have never seen nor read anyone explaining why and how grammar came about. When was it, how did it happen and who was it that first sat and pondered and came up with, for example, the idea that complex events in the future could happen and relate to other points in time and thus decided to invent the future conditional subjunctive and then to systematise usage through conjugation and declension? Someone or some process must have worked it out, somewhere.
Anglo-Saxon was (is) hellishly complicated in its various grammatical constructions. And it was inherited from the dialects of Old Low German brought over in the 4th and 5th centuries from Germania. Where did they get it from? Did some illiterate Frisians invent it? No. So they got it from some other earlier language, right? But from where? Why have such complex grammar if ones language is anyway not written down? And if only spoken, wouldn't it decay as it self-simplifies?
Maybe the languages that are inflected descended from languages which were analytic originally. A suffix used to denote perfect may have descended from an independent particle meaning something like 'already' etc.
This video is from funny
What is your evidence of what are you saying
Why no Chinese?
cause its not europien
FichDichInDemArsch thats not racist
FichDichInDemArsch why is it racism
Farsi is the endonym of the language. The correct name for the language is Persian in English and Farsi in Persian. Like how we call the language French in English and Francais in French.
Where are guarany and quechua (incas' language) . there are very old languages that people still speak nowadays.
Not that anyone takes you seriously, but you are also funny.
However good to laugh we do not need to pay!😉👍
You could do this with a lot of languages. All languages change over time, and yes some get influenced by other languages more than others, but still. How come you picked Tamil and not Kannada? Or Finnish and not Estonian? Why Macedonian and not Bulgarian? Why Farsi and not Hindi, Sanskrit or Kurdish? A lot of them are also very similar so I am wondering what is the logic behind this selection. And like you said, there are some other even more conservative languages with a lot less speakers.
MultiSciGeek fake id kannadigay
to be true and honest,better call Slav Macedonian....Macedonian is dialect of Ancient Greek.FYROM language declined from mother Bulgarian language by many Chirurgie Operations after 1944.I Didn't See Suahili and Abbynessian,Chinese as well.
தமிழன் என்று சொல்லடா தலை நிமிர்ந்து நில்லடா... 👑
No mention of P Celtic, ancient language of which Welsh is a derivative!
"alternative options"
because no one can speak those in your center, I guess