The question of which language is the oldest can be called both simple and complex. Linguist Danny Heber says this. Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to prove that a single proto-language is the possible ancestor of all languages in the world. For this reason, some linguists believe that the first written language should be called the oldest language. Examples of these languages are Sumerian and Akkadian. Their age is at least 4600 years. The same can be said for the Egyptian language. Archaeologists generally agree that these three languages are the oldest written languages.
If we talk about the oldest among the living languages, then there are also several options. For example, Hebrew and Arabic. They belong to the Afroasiatic language family, whose history goes back 20 thousand years.
Another contender is Chinese. It was probably formed about 4500 years ago from the Proto-Sino-Tibetan language. The earliest Chinese written evidence is inscriptions on turtle shells and animal bones made about 3,300 years ago.
There is also an assumption that the oldest languages are Sanskrit and Tamil. Moreover, some linguists state that Tamil is the oldest of these.
Source: Ferra
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