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Oldest language?

October 27, 2008 by coglanglab, 1 year 4 weeks ago
Comment: 32555

Sorry, Latin isn't the oldest language in the world by a long shot. Nobody is sure when languages first came into existence, but estimates run from 40,000 to 100,000 years ago. Latin was spoken 2,000-3,000 years ago.

But that's a misnomer, too, because the Latin of Romulus and Remus would have been very different from the Latin of Constantine. That's a long way of saying there is no oldest language.

Please try my web-based experiments

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