To date, there are a great manylanguages of both ancient and relatively young; both artificial and natural; both living and dead. Of course, each of them has the right to exist, because once they are used by at least some people, it means they are needed. In the end, many believe (and it is not unreasonable) that it is articulate speech and the possession of one's own language that makes a person a person.
Но, наверное, каждый хоть раз задумывался о том, what kind of ancestry ancient languages have, how they survived to this day and which one is the oldest. Unfortunately, there is no answer to this question until now.
Of course, speaking of the language as such, the most ancient is sign language. But what about the oral variant?
На эту тему существует очень интересная история about a certain pharaoh who, like the reader, became interested in the question of the proto-language. For the purpose of experimenting, this inquisitive ruler ordered to lock in the hut two babies who had never heard a human speech in their lives. This was done later, so that the children "remembered" the ancient languages supposedly laid in their genes. To prevent the children from starvation, they were regularly brought to the milk goat, on whose milk they grew up.
И вот, в один прекрасный день подросшие ребятишки uttered their first word, and it sounded like this: "bicot". Pharaoh told his subjects to find a people whose language has this word. Strangely enough, it was found - in the Phrygian language "bicot" means "bread."
Of course, this experiment clarified something only for the pharaoh, since the modern reader can easily see that there are more ancient languages than the Phrygian.
To date, the most ancient recognized several languages.
Thus, the Sumerian was first witnessed in writing in 3200 BC.
The first mention of the Akkadian language spoken by the inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia dates back to 2800 BC.
Root Egyptian is also very ancient. The first written evidence of its existence dates back to 3400 BC.
The Semites had their own language - once very popular, but now dead. It was called Elab, and it exists, the smallest, since 2400 BC.
In ancient Crete, the Minoan language was widely used, the flowering of which took place for the entire second century BC.
The Hittite empire created its own language, called Hittite, during its prosperity. Its origins date back to 1650 BC.
One of the most ancient - not only with respect to oral speech, but also writing, is the Greek language, the first mention of which dates back to 1400 BC.
Chinese originated around the 11th century BC. Today a lot of people are talking on it.
So, from all of the above, we can conclude that many ancient languages of the world exist to this day, which means that their history is constantly replenished, and they are being improved.
However, there is another noteworthy language, which should be mentioned. This is the language of Ancient India, Sanskrit.
The origin of classical Sanskrit isspecialists by the 4 th century AD, however, eight centuries before it originated Sanskrit epic, and a related Vedic language arose in the twentieth century BC.
Despite being more than a respectable age, hehas survived to the present day in full, for which it is necessary to thank the ancient sages who stood on the protection of the text of the sacred Vedas and the entire Vedic language. Thanks to the method they invented, their students could memorize the whole sacred book, and then transfer their knowledge to a new generation.
In Sanskrit speak to this day, there are people who communicate on it in everyday life.
Of course, in Ancient India in addition to Sanskrit, there were other ancient languages, but none of them wrote as many great works as in the language of the Vedas.
