What were the first languages ever spoke?

Question

And if you can give me a link as well that would be great.

Answer 1

I've had some professors say it was the Nostratic languages and some say it was Hebrew.....

Answer 2

For obvious reason's there's no way to know the first spoken languages, but I believe one of the oldest found in written form is Sanskrit  

Answer 3

No one knows.

Linguists have been able to trace many many languages back to common ancestors, but have not been able to make definitive links between these ancestors. The decendants of these languages make up what we call "language families", which are groups of languages known to have a common ancestor.

The language I am typing now, English, is part of the Indo-European language family, one of the largest families, which also includes (but is not limited to) German, Spanish, Latin, Russian, French, Hindi, Greek, Iranian, and many others. Each of these languages descended from a common ancestor known as Proto-Indo-European.

Some other language families, each with their own common ancestor, include Sino-Tibetan (includes Chinese, Magar, and Tibetan); Afro-Asiatic (includes Egyptian, Hebrew, Arabic, the Berber languages, and Phoenician) ; Austronesian (includes Malay, Malagasy, Tagalog, Indonesian, Rapa Nui, and Hawaiian) ; and Niger-Congo (includes Igbo, Ewe, Nyabwa, Bambara, Akan, Swahili, and Zulu). There are actually alot more language families than these, and therefore more than 2 or 3 original languages.

There have been linguists that have tried to link all the language families together, to find a single common ancestor, but so far they have not been entirely successful. And even if they were to dicover a "Proto-World" language, it would not mean that it was the first language ever spoken, as Proto-World may itself have ancestors.

I myself, being a Christian, believe that, at one time, there was one language spoken in the whole world, but that this language is now extinct from the tower of Babel event. It is likely that the languages that arose at the tower of Babel are the ancestor languages to the many language families scattered throughout the world.

Hope this helps, and God bless!

Edit: I think I can say with much certainty, both Biblically and archaeologically speaking, that Hebrew is not the oldest or first spoken language.

Latin isn't really that old, probably less than 3000 years old, a baby compaired to most ancient languages. Latin probably shares a common ancestory with the Celtic languages.

Answer 4

english

Answer 5

I think it may it be Hebrew, but the very first I ever spoke was Spanish..lol..  



Good Luck!

Answer 6

Ugh, and Ooga, Ooga.

Answer 7

The moment there are no more written traces, you can only hypothetically reconstruct so-called "Proto" languages. For example, Latin comes from Indo-European, but we have no written sources for Proto-Indo-European, but a fairly good idea how it sounded. The same for Hebrew. We have an idea how the Semetic language - where it came from - sounded, but only a vague idea about Proto-Semitic,  Afro-Asiatic, or Proto- Afro-Asiatic.

See :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-World...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borean_lang...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostratic_l...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Semit...

Answer 8

Latin was not one of the first languages ever spoken, nor was Hebrew. In fact, they were not even the first languages written down. Spoken language goes back tens of thousands of years.

The oldest ones are from Africa, as agreed by linguists. Try the source for a list.

Answer 9

in the bible,it says hebrew was the first language ever spoken.