What is the oldest language still spoken in the world today?

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What is the oldest language still spoken in the world today ? This seems to be a simple and straightforward question. So let dive into the video that we will discover from Tamil, around since 2500 B.C., to Mandarin Chinese, chilling for nearly 6,000 years. We'll chat about Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, Arabic, Georgian, Irish Gaelic, and Armenian, all giving us major history vibes. These languages are like time machines, showing us how folks used to shoot the breeze.
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@juliannaruffini День назад

there is no "oldest language"

@Ellary_Rosewood День назад

I currently live in Georgia 🇬🇪 and it's been a challenge learning the language. It's such a beautiful language, but it's definitely a difficult one, especially with the lack of resources. The alphabet is very simple, the pronunciation is pretty straightforward once you get used to the sounds, but the grammar is definitely the challenge. I can't wait until I'm more proficient in it! ❤️ If there are any Georgians out there, გამარჯობა!

@BozheTsaryaKhrani 18 часов назад

i can agree im about to move there გამარჯობა

@HarshaDavid_since_2003 3 часа назад

Yeah it's pretty hard to learn , compared to other languages , as it has more than 200 Alphabets .

@hcholm День назад

I am surprised to see a video like this on an otherwise good quality RU-vid channel. There is no "oldest language". All languages evolve and split into varieties over time, and all languages have ancestors. What this video shows, are some languages which can be traced back to ancestors with very old written records. That's something completely different than being the "oldest languages".

@Marcin-vn4kk День назад

I have some doubts regarding this list. Languages change over the time. Not sure if we can call it the same language when modern speakers are not able to understand ancient version of it's own language.

@alicelund147 3 часа назад

I agree. Islanders could probably understand people from some 1200 years ago but few other would. Chinese languages (Yes plural) just have the same characters, not the same language.

@ruralsquirrel5158 20 часов назад

2:48 The actor playing Jesus there is speaking Latin, not Aramaic.

@pierreabbat6157 23 часа назад

How do you even define how old a language is? Armenian has been spoken long before Mesrop invented an alphabet for it. Hebrew separated from Phoenician when Abra(ha)m, a native Aramaic speaker, moved to Canaan. Cherokee has been written since about 1820, but as it's the only Southern Iroquoian language, it could be said to date from when Southern Iroquoian split from Northern Iroquoian.

@Drabkikker 20 часов назад

Exactly. It's like asking "What is the oldest species in the world that is still alive today?". Well, all of them, since they all came from the same ancestor if you go back far enough. So in that sense, you could say that _every_ language alive today is "the oldest".

@XenoFonia 2 часа назад

You can estimate by a number of things. For instance, the Georgian culture is estimated to be around 6000 years old, according to the archaeological evidence of its material continuity. So the language is likely at least that old. But probably older, becsuse most of the snxestors of Georgians have lived in Georgia for around 13,000-15,000 years. When the Georgian language began its contiguous existence, or whether it was endemic or imported to who we call Georgian people, is questionable. But we can VERY roughly estimate that it is around 6000 to 15000 years old.

@binderchannel9454 7 часов назад

It is interesting that when she was searching on oldest languages, the 3rd option was Persian/Farsi, yet she did not even mention it! why????

@asuka4ever1979 3 часа назад

Languages transform gradually. It is a philosophical issue.

@HarshaDavid_since_2003 3 часа назад

Tamil Is The First Oldest Written Language in the world 🌍 . And There's lot of Tamil Words in Korean language, Because of a Tamil Pandya Princess Sembavalam or Heo Hwang ok, who went from ay region of the Pandya kingdom or today's Mordern Day Kanyakumari , who Ruled Korea for 150 yrs as Queen Mother. Proud to be a Tamil 🔥 🐅🎏🏹

@tenenteribeiro9855 20 часов назад

Grateful! From Brazil.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

@paulwalther5237 14 часов назад

Modern Hebrew is insane. How did people go about reviving a language that died generations ago just using religious texts? Unless it was spoken as a scholarly language like Latin so there were accepted standards maybe but it just boggles the mind how you would get such a large group of people to agree on and work towards making something so difficult work. It seems so impractical.

@GregPeterson-m5g День назад

except Hebrew, I doubt the rest would understand much of the ancient versions. Hebrew is a revived language as far as I know - it was like dead for thousands of years, andwas used only in prayers etc

@BozheTsaryaKhrani 18 часов назад

georgian is the best language very fun to learn

@KannadaSatya-g4h 3 часа назад

Wrong information there are many languages in india which are older than 5th century AD

@antonbala755 4 часа назад

The Albanian language spoken today is one of the oldest languages still in use. The Albanian language is a branch of its own within the branch of languages, like Greek. And I think it is older than Latin and may be older than Greek itself. It uses the shortest words for the most important meanings of everyday life. And the way the words are written (hieroglafically) has a connection with the meaning. This is seen most of all in the dialectal version of the Albanian language, the Geg dialect which is the oldest form of the Albanian language. Unfortunately this language is little known, and it began to be written late, because it is little documented in ancient inscriptions, and there are not many texts.