What are the earliest recorded indo-european languages?
In response to the above answer, Linear B was used to transcribe an archaic form of Ancient Greek, an Indo-European language. The nature of the Minoan language is currently unknown, given linguists’ inability to decode Linear A, however, it could very well be an Indo-European language. In any event, neither script commonly comes up in the discussion of the first attested languages. The Sumerian language is a much more common example, and is widely accepted to be the first attested language. Sumerian is first attested from around 3000 BC, and is a language isolate, unrelated to any other known language. However, new archeological evidence seems to suggest that the language of the Ancient Egyptians, which survives today as Coptic, the liturgical language of Egypt’s Christian minority, may have been attested as many as 400 years before Sumerian. The commonly cited date for the first attestation of the Egyptian language is circa the 28th century BC, from the tomb of a pharaoh known as Seth
