Which is oldest language in India?

The Sanskrit language has been spoken since 5,000 years before Christ. Sanskrit is still the official language of India.
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Which is the 2nd oldest language in India?

2. Sanskrit – 1500 BC (circa. 3500 years old)
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Which is the top 10 oldest language in India?

  • Tamil (300 BC – present) ...
  • Farsi(522 BC – present) ...
  • Hebrew (1000 BC- present) ...
  • Aramaic ( 1100 BC to present) ...
  • Chinese(1250 BC) ...
  • Greek (1450 BC) This language has evolved from its old scripture. ...
  • Sanskrit. This is the second oldest language in the world which is still being used today. ...
  • Egyptian (2690 BC)
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Which is the oldest language in the world?

The archaeological proof we have today allows us to state that the oldest dead language in the world is the Sumerian language. Dating back to at least 3500 BC, the oldest proof of written Sumerian was found in today's Iraq, on an artifact known as the Kish Tablet.
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What is the mother of all languages?

COIMBATORE: The Tamil language is older than Sanskrit and is "the mother of all languages in the world," said Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday.
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List of Top 10 Oldest Languages in World || 2 From India ?



Who discovered Tamil?

According to Hindu legend, Tamil or in personification form Tamil Thāi (Mother Tamil) was created by Lord Shiva.
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Which is the baddest language in the world?

1. Mandarin. As mentioned before, Mandarin is unanimously considered the toughest language to master in the world! Spoken by over a billion people in the world, the language can be extremely difficult for people whose native languages use the Latin writing system.
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Is Telugu older than Tamil?

Some believe that Telugu evolved from proto-Dravidian, which is the mother of 21 languages that took birth south of the Vindhyas. Those who argue that Telugu is older than Tamil, peg the date of origin of Telugu to at least 1000 years BCE (3000 years old).
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Which is the 4th oldest language in the world?

12 Oldest Languages In The World Still Widely Used!
  1. Tamil (5000 years old) - Oldest Living Language of the World. ...
  2. Sanskrit (5000 years old) - World's Oldest Language. ...
  3. Egyptian (5000 years old) ...
  4. Hebrew (3000 years old) ...
  5. Greek (2900 years old) ...
  6. Basque (2200 years old) ...
  7. Lithuanian (5000 years old) ...
  8. Farsi (2500 years old)
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Which is the 3 oldest language in the world?

Greek is the third oldest language in the world. Latin was the official language of the ancient Roman Empire and ancient Roman religion.
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Which is hardest language in India?

Malayalam

Google declares Malayalam (the official language of Kerala State) to be the most difficult language in India. When compared to any other language in India, it is both difficult to learn and to pronounce. It may be the world's second most difficult language, behind Chinese.
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What was the first human language?

The Proto-Human language (also Proto-Sapiens, Proto-World) is the hypothetical direct genetic predecessor of all the world's spoken languages. It would not be ancestral to sign languages.
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Which is the coolest language in India?

Top 10 Most Popular Indian Languages
  • Hindi. Hindi is officially the most popular language spoken across India. ...
  • Bengali. The second most widely spoken language after Hindi is none other than Bengali which is said to be spoken by approximately 8% of the entire population. ...
  • Telugu. ...
  • Marathi.
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Who invented Telugu?

The Telugu script is derived from that of the 6th-century Calukya dynasty and is related to that of the Kannada language. Telugu literature begins in the 11th century with a version of the Hindu epic Mahabharata by the writer Nannaya Bhatta.
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Is Kannada first or Telugu?

Kannada became a written language ahead of Telugu. Both Kannada and Telugu produced poetry during the eighth century. Full-fledged literary works in Kannada appeared in the ninth century, two centuries before they became available in Telugu. The earliest known Telugu inscriptions date to the 6th century CE.
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Can Tamilians understand Telugu?

A Tamil speaker would find Malayalam the easiest to understand. Telugu is a south central Dravidian language, so Tamil and Telugu aren't mutually intelligible. Kannada and Tamil both belong to South-Dravidian, yet they aren't mutually intelligible.
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Which is the queen of all languages?

Answer. Answer: Kannada Language spoken in the Southern State in India is the Queen Of All Languages In The World. The people spoke the most prominent Dravidian language of Karnataka In India.
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Which is the sweetest language in India?

There can't be any doubt that Bengali is a sweet language. Now, it has been accepted that it is indeed the sweetest,” said Ray. According to twitter messages, the formal announcement could come on Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary in May.
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What is the easiest language to learn?

And The Easiest Language To Learn Is…
  1. Norwegian. This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for English speakers. ...
  2. Swedish. ...
  3. Spanish. ...
  4. Dutch. ...
  5. Portuguese. ...
  6. Indonesian. ...
  7. Italian. ...
  8. French.
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What is special about Tamil?

In 2004 Tamil was declared a classical language of India, meaning that it met three criteria: its origins are ancient; it has an independent tradition; and it possesses a considerable body of ancient literature. In the early 21st century more than 66 million people were Tamil speakers.
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How old is Tamil?

Among Indian languages, Tamil has the most ancient non-Sanskritic Indian literature. Scholars categorise the attested history of the language into three periods: Old Tamil (300 BCE–700 CE), Middle Tamil (700–1600) and Modern Tamil (1600–present).
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Are Tamils from Africa?

Tamil people form the majority of Indian immigrants who came from India to Natal, South Africa, from 1860 onwards.
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