Even if it doesn't seem like it, the oldest languages have existed for thousands of years. According to some researchers, they date back 6,000 years. Language is nothing more than a set of elements used as a communication mechanism between people in a community.
It is estimated that verbal language already carries something around 50 thousand years. When language is used to identify an existing nation, we call it a idiom.
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In other words, language is the language of a people.
Ancient languages still spoken
Nowadays, it is estimated that there are more than 6,500 languages in the world and, what's more, the oldest ones are no more than 6,000 years old. Below are the five oldest languages in the world.
- Georgian
This is the official language of Georgia. In addition to having their own alphabet, this is the mother tongue of more than 4 million people who live in the country and 500,000 who live outside it.
- Lithuanian
Its origin comes from the Indo-European language. About 4 million people communicate through the language. Official from Lithuania, it is one of the oldest in the world, as it dates back to 3,500 years BC. W.
- Macedonian
There is the modern Macedonian language which is spoken by the South Slavic peoples and which emerged between the 6th and 7th centuries. Ancient Macedonia emerged in the 5th century BC. W. and was spoken in the Hellenic state of Macedonia.
- Irish Gaelic
It is the official language, with English, in Ireland. It is also one of the official European Union, however only about 2% of the population communicate through it.
- Finnish
Finnish is a language belonging to the Uralic language family, a group different from other European languages that belong to Indo-European. In the same family as Finnish, there are Estonian, Hungarian, Karelian and Lapland.
