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What was the first known langauge which humans spoke and wrote?

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Spoken and Written.

The question seeks the two partnering by reference to year, month, day, (or their form of time/space dating) within their historical recordings. By which to verify they were using both types of communications.

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  1. What distinguishes Homo Sapiens (us) from other Homonids, is a speech canal in the interior part of our skulls, which allows us to pause while we are breathing and speak, as opposed to grunting or other types of aspirations...

    This was first recognized in skeletal remains, dating back to at least 190,000 BCE...and was probably used by Hunters & Gatherers to articulate instructions, while coordinating the kill of a large mammal, for meat, or to communicate from memory,where the best nuts and berries could be located!

    Though Hieroglyphic (Egyptian) & Cuneiform (Sumerian) writing first appeared by 3400 BCE (literature), written symbols,paintings, etchings, carvings and engravings usually on bone or ivory, which reflected numbers and counting, first appeared during the Aurignacian Period throughout Europe (Cavemen) which lasted from 37,000-28,000 BCE...


  2. Most linguists assume that the full language capacity had evolved by 100,000 BC

    But the oldest written languages (that we have found)  probably started about 3200bc (Sumerian or Egyptian)

  3. The first written languages were sumerian, egyptian, and probably

    also chinese. I don't know what the first spoken languages were.

  4. Sanskrit is Indoeuropean, like french and english.

    Cuneiform was a phoenetically based writing system, and the above dates are correct.  This is the first evidence of a spoken and written language.

  5. futunese of course!

  6. I though Sanscrit was the earliest known form of writing with cuneiform being second?

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