The earliest testimony of the Armenian language dates to the 5th century AD (the Bible translation of Mesrob Mashtots)
http://www.answers.com/topic/proto-armenian-language
http://www.answers.com/topic/proto-armenian-language
Most oldest (archaic) indo-european languages.
Slavo-Illyrian...hmmm...what does your "name" mean? It basically looks like a combination of chocolate and parsley...inexistent and disguisting. No offense, but when you mention the word "slav-e", you cross "unmentioned" centuries of civilisations that other nations went through before "slav-es" poped up in VI AD. But this is another unimportant topic that can be dealt with somewhere else, and that has nothing to do with ancient Indoeuropean language, with Albanian language being probably the oldest one and Albanian people being the first European land farmers.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:0l4gpr2MPgcJ:www.tech.plym.ac.uk/socce/evolang6/piazza_cavalli-sforza.doc+albanian+origin+luigi+cavalli+sforza&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us
http://www.geocities.com/ga57/albania/tree.html
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:0l4gpr2MPgcJ:www.tech.plym.ac.uk/socce/evolang6/piazza_cavalli-sforza.doc+albanian+origin+luigi+cavalli+sforza&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us
http://www.geocities.com/ga57/albania/tree.html
If everybody stop arguing and please follow this link as it's the first ever made indo-european tree braqnch ever starting from oldest-youngest bottom to top.
http://home.online.no/~bmatos/artimages/ACFPCAr4ayDW.jpg
Thank you and follow so you'll see it's no fake it's real and it's in a greek museum I think since 1960
http://home.online.no/~bmatos/artimages/ACFPCAr4ayDW.jpg
Thank you and follow so you'll see it's no fake it's real and it's in a greek museum I think since 1960
Irrintzi, thanks for your posting about the vocabularies of Basque and Inuit. I try to add the Hokkien for your comparison.
andis
> The Basque has resemblance with amerindian, sibero-ouralic, japanese or mongol languages:
example:
> "WE"
> Basque = Inuit Language = GU
Hokkien; gun, goan
> Basque EGUN "day" with Burushaski GON "dawn".
> Let us now take this stem right the way through Dene-Caucasian. (I cannot reproduce all the phonetic symbols, so I will attempt the best possible approximation.)
> Basque EGUN
> Iberian IGUN
> Sumerian GUN "bright"
Hokkien; kng, kong (kng, kong read as gng, gong) "bright"
> Old Chinese *KWANG "bright"
No one know the pronunciation of Old Chinese (the Literary Chinese)
Mandarin; *GUANG "bright"
> Amazing comparisons with Eskimo and Basque:
> COMPARISON OF BASQUE & ESKIMO VOCULABARIES
> 1 (Eskimo English)
aliak, to please
> 2 (Basque English)
alaia, pleasing
Hokkien
lek (read as lik), liak; a person do something for another people so make him feeling tired.
> 1 amaamak, mother
> 2 ama, mother
Hokkien
am-ma; grandmother,
a-ma; mother
> 1 angi, tall
> 2 andi, tall
Hokkien
an; sky,
an-tah (tah read as da); oath
> 1 angiak, spirit of a murdered child
> 2 angaila, stretcher
Hokkien
giah; hang up arms, feet or something
la-giah; harvestman
> 1 angun, man
> 2 ango, native person
Hokkien
an-kun, a-kun-a, hu-kun (kun read as gun); husband
goa-kun (read as gua gun); my husband
> 1 ania, brother
> 2 anaia, brother
Hokkien
an-hiann (hiann read as hia+nn "nn = nasalisation"), a-hiann; elder brother, elder man
> 1 aninga, her brother
> 2 anaia, brother
Hokkien
in-ko, in-ko-a (ko read as goat); their elder brother
> 1 ano, dog harness
> 2 ano, dog feed
Hokkien
nau; eat something in the mouth, or someone speaks something in mouth himself / herself
> 1 apumang, gunwhale
> 2 apurkor, fragile
Hokkien
phut (read as put); put down something with a stick or sword
kou (read as gor); make something into glue-state or fragile
1 aqittuq, tender, weak
2 akitu, tired
Hokkien
tu, tu-bin (tu read as du); a person feel tired and sit down to sleep for a short time
1 aqu, stern of the boat
2 akulu, to push, to prod
Hokkien
ko (read as goat); row a boat
lou (read as lor); oar
1 arautaq, snow beater
2 arrau-taka, oar-to hit, hit with
Hokkien
lau; beat
that (read as tart); beat with foot
andis
> The Basque has resemblance with amerindian, sibero-ouralic, japanese or mongol languages:
example:
> "WE"
> Basque = Inuit Language = GU
Hokkien; gun, goan
> Basque EGUN "day" with Burushaski GON "dawn".
> Let us now take this stem right the way through Dene-Caucasian. (I cannot reproduce all the phonetic symbols, so I will attempt the best possible approximation.)
> Basque EGUN
> Iberian IGUN
> Sumerian GUN "bright"
Hokkien; kng, kong (kng, kong read as gng, gong) "bright"
> Old Chinese *KWANG "bright"
No one know the pronunciation of Old Chinese (the Literary Chinese)
Mandarin; *GUANG "bright"
> Amazing comparisons with Eskimo and Basque:
> COMPARISON OF BASQUE & ESKIMO VOCULABARIES
> 1 (Eskimo English)
aliak, to please
> 2 (Basque English)
alaia, pleasing
Hokkien
lek (read as lik), liak; a person do something for another people so make him feeling tired.
> 1 amaamak, mother
> 2 ama, mother
Hokkien
am-ma; grandmother,
a-ma; mother
> 1 angi, tall
> 2 andi, tall
Hokkien
an; sky,
an-tah (tah read as da); oath
> 1 angiak, spirit of a murdered child
> 2 angaila, stretcher
Hokkien
giah; hang up arms, feet or something
la-giah; harvestman
> 1 angun, man
> 2 ango, native person
Hokkien
an-kun, a-kun-a, hu-kun (kun read as gun); husband
goa-kun (read as gua gun); my husband
> 1 ania, brother
> 2 anaia, brother
Hokkien
an-hiann (hiann read as hia+nn "nn = nasalisation"), a-hiann; elder brother, elder man
> 1 aninga, her brother
> 2 anaia, brother
Hokkien
in-ko, in-ko-a (ko read as goat); their elder brother
> 1 ano, dog harness
> 2 ano, dog feed
Hokkien
nau; eat something in the mouth, or someone speaks something in mouth himself / herself
> 1 apumang, gunwhale
> 2 apurkor, fragile
Hokkien
phut (read as put); put down something with a stick or sword
kou (read as gor); make something into glue-state or fragile
1 aqittuq, tender, weak
2 akitu, tired
Hokkien
tu, tu-bin (tu read as du); a person feel tired and sit down to sleep for a short time
1 aqu, stern of the boat
2 akulu, to push, to prod
Hokkien
ko (read as goat); row a boat
lou (read as lor); oar
1 arautaq, snow beater
2 arrau-taka, oar-to hit, hit with
Hokkien
lau; beat
that (read as tart); beat with foot
Everyone seems to forget the oldest living indo-european language is IRANIAN.
Sadly,Sanskrit is not "living " since no one speaks it anymore. So ,we'll stick to Iranian,ok?
You could say that about all the dead languages, but then none of them would be dead ,and we wouldn't be talking about dead languages since all of them are alive because all are spoken and studied to some extent.
What I'm really trying to say is that you are wrong.
What I'm really trying to say is that you are wrong.
If someone is raised and taught sanskrit natively , is it alive again? Because I heard of a child who learnt klingon natively. Sanskrit is used as a tool of communication so it is not dead.
Extinct languages can not be revived. For instance,Latin is the official language of the Vatican,it is spoken and written there, but that does not change the fact that it is a dead language
Yes they can. Italian was a dead language before the unification of Italy. It was used for writing just like Sanskrit nowadays, but nobody spoke it natively.
Oops,didn't know that. And how exactly did they relearn it? Oh they just knew it but did not want to speak it ? And after the unification they said : "Hey ,what the heck,let us speak the language we all know!"
And if by "dead" you mean the fact that it was not official (which probably was the case),sorry to say that you are wrong again.
And if by "dead" you mean the fact that it was not official (which probably was the case),sorry to say that you are wrong again.