What is the earlyest know/recorded spoken language?

Question

Language obviously developed as we evolved and changed as we radiated across the world but is there a language or languages that predates most or all of the others?

Answer 1

Sanskrit is a candidate as it is the base language of all indo-european languages.Look it up on the net.

Answer 2

The Bible is the oldest book have ever known, and it has the widest distribution ever. since it recorded the oldest history and the language used is Hebrew (Hebrew-Aramaic), we can consider perhaps its as the oldest language.

...gain widespread among Jews, Arabs, Syriac Christians, and the Church Fathers, according to which Aramaic or ‘Synac' is the oldest language...

Answer 3

Keep in mind that we have no way of "knowing" a language from the past unless it has been recorded.  Writing is a very recent invention when it comes to the human timeline.  At most, we can go back about 6,000 years - and that's only in a few places in the world.  Most places did not use a written language for most of their history.  Therefore, even if there WAS a "language that predates all others,"  we'd have no way of knowing what it was.

The earliest written languages are:  Sumerian (Cuneiform), Dravidian (but we can't read that one), Egyptian (Heiroglyphics), and Sanskrit.

Answer 4

You are asking two questions, the earliest known and the earliest recorded. These are not the same.

Answer 5

The earliest language was spoken by the earliest wife while b1tchin' at her earliest husband about something or other......

Answer 6

Hebrew is the earliest language spoken and written.