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Saturday, January 26, 2013

7 Classical Oldest Language Of The World!


Language is a medium of communication come to form well back 1,00,000 years.The first spoken form of language hasn't still accounted and don't exist in the world,since ancient language don't have written script.Justifying first language of the earth merely impossible.Even accounting first language is difficult,but we can find some of the treasure language of the earth.Civilization developed along with this classical language of the world.
Worlds is always fond of 7, the most powerful 7 classical language of the world.They are treasure of the world.Everyone as a duty to protect the treasure of world.Some of the early existed language even before theses classical language got extended form the world.

7 Classical Treasure Language of the World:
Greek:
Language Family:Indo-European
Writing System:Greek alphabet
Civilization:Greek Civilization.
Standard forms/Dialects: Demotic/14 dialects
Origin:Beyond 3000 BC(Believed to still more than 5000BC)
Native Speaker:>15.2 million
Today:Greek spread across Mediterranean sea coast,Restricted to Greece nation.
Specialty:Greek is the language of the scientific vocabulary and over 10,00,000 words are loaned to English language.
History:proto-greek has origin well over 2nd millennium BC,Since Greek evolved along with Greek civilization its more orientated towards culture and tradition.Greek accounts for some of valuable treasured literacy like Odyssey,lliad,Aristotle philosophy & Plato,Greek New testament etc     
Personality:Aristotle,Plato etc.

Latin:

Language Family:Indo-European
Writing System:Latin alphabet
Civilization:Roman Civilization
Standard forms/Dialects:Latin Origin:Around 1000 BC
Native Speaker:<1,00,000(Vatican City,Italy)
Today:Latin confined to christian community of the world(Vatican)considered as a death language.
Specialty:Latin is the language of scientific invention and most of biological terms arrived from Latin.About 70% of the incunabula are in Latin.
History:Latin language evolved around the roman empire.Latin one of the factor behind spread of Christianity.Since Many scientific finding took place in and around roman empire,So Latin place a vital role in science forum.Latin is always confined within the lower half of the Mediterranean sea.
Personality: Plautus,Caesar etc.

Hebrew:
Language Family:Afro-Asiatic
Writing System:Hebrew alphabets
Civilization:Post-Mesopotamian Civilization
Standard forms/Dialects:Hebrew
Origin:around 10th century BC
Native Speaker:Native Speaker extincted around 7 th century AD,<8 million(Modern Israel)
Today:Hebrew is restricted as language of Jewish people and popularly Spoken around Israel.
Specialty:Holy Language of Jewish and Hebrew's.Since Bible first written in this language only.Most Jewish and christian History in Hebrew language.
History:Hebrew saw many periods from monarchic Period to Arabic period.Old testament is fully written in Hebrew
Personality:Moses etc.
Persian:
Language Family:Indo-Iranian
Writing System:Persian Alphabet/Cyrillic Script
Civilization:Muslim Civilization
Standard forms/Dialects:9 dialects
Origin:5th century BC
Native Speaker:110 million
Today:Its spread across 12 countries in the world.Persian Language inscription can be seen across the Mughal Construction.
Specialty:Persian language inspired Many Indo-Aryan Language.Persian Is the mother language of Urdu.
History:Persian was first originated along the Iraq and Iran.Persian Spread across the South Asia by Mughal Colonization.Persian as significant presence in Muslim community.Persian and Arabic both confined within Muslim Religion.
Personality:Mughal Empire Kings,Saaid etc.

Chinese:

Language Family:Sino-Tibetan
Writing System:Chinese characters, zhuyin fuhao, pinyin, Xiao'erjing
Civilization:Chinese Civilization
Standard forms/Dialects:Mandarin/16 Dialects
Origin:2nd millennium BC
Native Speaker:> 1.4 Billion
Today:Chinese is the largest spoken in the world.Chinese is spread across entire Asia.
Specialty:Chinese is the only language which as to read top to bottom.Chinese share largest culture share across the world.
History:Xia-Dynasty was official Empire which spread Chinese across the globe.Chinese language is believed to more than 10,000 years old.It has literature,Culture and tradition.Chinese Culture one of the few culture existing in the world.
Personality:Yu,Shan etc.

Sanskrit:
Language Family:Indo-Aryan
Written System:No native script(Written in Devanagari)
Civilization:Hindu Culture(Since language confined to Hindu Brahmin)
Standard forms/Dialects:No Spoken Form(Dead Language)
Origin:3000 BC(Rig Veda)
Native Speaker:<5,000
Today:Sanskrit is a dead language.Still its used only for Mantra's of Hindu workship and Indian Government Slogans.About Century Back Sanskrit lost its Spoken Form.
Specialty:Sanskrit is the mother of all European Language.
History:Sanskrit Script early found in Rig Veda.Its Hindu Veda believed to sacred.Sanskrit always been language of priest and Bhramin,so Sanskrit came to extinct.Sanskrit is always not a language of common man.
Personality:Valmiki,Kalidas etc.

Tamil:
Language Family:Dravidian
Written System:Tamil Script
Civilization:Indus-Valley Civilization
Standard forms/Dialects:7 Dialects
Origin:before 300 BC(Some Estimate over 2000BC )
Native Speakers:>77 million
Today:Tamil Spread across south Asia.It Enjoy Official status of more 4 countries.
Specialty:55% of the epigraphical Inscription found in India are in Tamil.Tamil-Brahmi Script inscription are found in Egypt,Thailand,Sri lanka,Which is about 2000 years old.Tamil is the only surviving classical language of the world.
History:Tamil-Brahmi Script are first written form of Tamil.Tamil Language had well defined written grammar even 2500 years ago(Tholkkapium).So Many believe that Tamil also one of the Language evolved during origin of Communication.Thirukurral One of the Greatest Literature of the world.
Personality:Thiruvalluvar,Tholkkapiur,Bodhidharman etc.

Dead World Treasure Languages:
Language more than just mode of communication,its a rich culture.So Everyone's duty to protect a language and mother tongue.Otherwise we will lose our rich culture and tradition which our fore fathers left for each and everyone.Some Of the dead languages which brought civilization to the world.1.Sumerian(Mesopotamian Civilization-5000BC)2.Akkadian(Mesopotamian Civilization-4500BC)3.Armenian(Jesus Christ Mother tongue)4.Egyptian(Egypt Civilization-3000BC)

                    "Protect your language,To Preserve your Past For Historic Future"


1 comment:

  1. Christ spoke Aramaic, which has modern descendants in Neo-Aramaic varieties.

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