Who holds honours for the oldest written language?
Ill give the answer for the oldest written language, and also the oldest SURVIVING written language, and there is a linguistic and ethnic lnk between them. The first and therefore oldest written language was Sumerian. They invented writing in around 3300BC, before Egyptian, and well before Sanskrit. Sumerian died out in around 1800BC, when the Sumerian race was bred into and absorbed by the Assyrians and Babylonians. Some Sumerian words survived into the Akkadian language spoken by the Assyrians/Babylonians. The Assyrians/Babylonians eventually adopted Aramaic, and a many Akkadian words and a few of Sumerian origin STILL survive in the Aramaic dialect spoken by Assyrian (aka Chaldo-Assyrian) people to this day. They are Aramaic speaking Christians, found primarily in Iraq, but also Iran, Syria, Turkey and Armenia. Aramaic is the oldest written language, STILL USED as a working language. Aramaic was first written down between 1500 and 1200BC..It has NEVER died out, and is still spoken a
