Is Chinese the Oldest Language ?
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Chinese might be the Oldest . But languages in Ancient Scriptures found for Ancient Egyptian and Indus Valley Civilizations might also be older than Chinese. And so could be predecessors of Greek and Latin . So it is an Open ENDED Question  !!!
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The Oldest plant in the world is the Algae is the oldest plant in the world! It's 3.2 billion years old, it was the first plant to grow by means of photosynthesis.
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Chinese. China is the most populated country in the world and will continue to grow exponentially. If you have any interest in the business world, knowing Chinese will be an amazing asset.\n\nIt is THE one language to learn - don't bother with issues like ease or how cool Japanese aname is. They're not relevant to the question.
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"TAMIL" is probably the oldest living language in the world. This is the mother language for the all the Drividian languages like Kannada,Malayam,&Telungu.\nEven other Indian languages like Sanskrit is infulance by tamil according to the resercher
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The Egyptian, Sumerian and the other early civilizations are considered to have collapsed and to have died and were absorbed into other civilizations unlike the Chinese civilization which is the last of the ancients that is still active as such. Some may consider the end of the monarchy of China to be an end; but not so. It is still a separate and existing continous state whereas Egypt had been absorbed into the Roman Empire then later by the Arabs in 642 AD. This totally changed Egyptian civilization and so went the vestiges of the Ancient Egyptian way of life .\n\nArchaeologists Revise Age of China's Civilization \n\nA group of Chinese archaeologists --revising the orthodox theory that China's civilization originated 5,000 years -- believe the nation's roots can be traced back 8,000 to 10,000 years. \n\nThey have unearthed China's earliest painting, writing, colored pottery, crop seed strain specimen and buildings showing the development from a rural to an urban society at Dadiwan Ruins in northwest China's Gansu province. \n\nThese early cultural relics, so far unrecorded in any historical book, belong to five ancient periods dating back to 8,000 years ago. \n\nProf. Li Xueqin, the prestigious researcher on the ancient history of China, said the discovery at Dadiwan Ruins suggested that the origins of China's civilization could be far earlier than the Shang Dynasty (16th to 11th century B.C.) and even the Xia Dynasty (2200 B.C. - 1700 B.C.). \n\nResearch findings at the Jinsha Ruins (or the ruin by the Jinsha river, one upstream tributary of China's longest Yangtze river) in southwestern Sichuan province, the 5,000-year-old Liangzhu Culture in east China's Zhejiang province and a number of other sites have yielded evidence showing they pre-existed the Xia Dynasty, the oldest period of China's recorded history. \n\nShi Shi, director of the Chinese Nationalities History Research Institute, noted that as early as 1997 that Chinese history could stretch back 10,000 years instead of the generally accepted 5,000 years. \n\nWithin the confinement of limited knowledge and historical data from that period, Si Maqian, a world-renowned ancient historian, set forth a theory in his book "Record of the Historian" that the Chinese civilization began with Huang Di and Yan Di, two most revered, brilliant legendary ancestors of the Chinese nation. His theory was later accepted by other scholars and experts in the ensuing historical periods and handed down to this very day, Shi said. \n\nNew archaeological, anthropological and folklore discoveries, nevertheless, indicate that the roots of the Chinese civilization started before Huang Di, he added. \n\nWang Wei, deputy director of the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "The invaluable cultural objects unearthed at the Dadiwan Ruins reflect the prehistoric cultural development on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, which had long been dubbed as the cradle of the Chinese civilization. They form a complete cultural chain in our research of the period 8,000 to 5,000 years ago." \n\nArchaeologists in China have excavated more than 200 colored pottery items dating back 8,000 years, believed to be the earliest of their kind ever found in China. \n\nThis latest discovery proves the country's pottery are as old as that found in other ancient countries and rejected and gave a lie to the conclusion that pottery manufacture in China was introduced from the West. \n\nThe archaeologists also excavated a unique, ancient village site comprising 240 houses with a combined floor space of some 500,000 square meters, which were classified into three grades, respectively for the chieftain, clan leaders and ordinary members. It contains a 420-square-meter hall for holding sacrificial rites and other ceremonial public events and activities. \n\nIt shows the evidence of evolution to urban development and a higher
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Chinese (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ; 华语/華語, Huáyǔ; or 中文, Zhōngwén) is a language (or language family) that forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the people in the world speak some form of Chinese as their native language.\n\nIn general, all varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. However, Chinese is also distinguished for a high level of internal diversity. Regional variation between different variants/dialects is comparable in many respects to the Romance language family; many variants of spoken Chinese are different enough to be mutually incomprehensible. There are between six and twelve main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most populous by far is Mandarin (c. 800 million), followed by Wu (c. 90 million), and Cantonese (c. 80 million). The identification of the varieties of Chinese as "languages" or "dialects" is a controversial issue. If Chinese is classified as a single language rather than a group of languages, it has the largest number of speakers in the world; if not, Mandarin still holds that title, with Wu and Cantonese following at tenth and sixteenth places respectively.\n\nThe standardized form of spoken Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect, a member of the Mandarin group; it is described in the article "Standard Mandarin." Standard Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China or Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore (together with English, Malay, and Tamil). Chinese—de facto, Standard Mandarin—is one of the six official languages of the United Nations (alongside English, Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish). Spoken in the form of Standard Cantonese, Chinese is one of the official languages of Hong Kong (together with English) and of Macau (together with Portuguese).\n\nVernacular Chinese, which is most closely based on the Mandarin group, is the standardized written language used by speakers of all Chinese spoken variants. Some other variants, including Cantonese and Minnan, have also developed written forms that correspond more closely to the spoken form of those variants, though these are used predominantly in informal contexts.
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There is such language as 'Chinese'. The major languages spoken in mainland China are Mandarin and Cantonese, along with many others. Mandarin is the official.\n\nThe Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, is among those who have introduced Mandarin in its curriculum as an option.\n\nhttp://www.nmims.edu/welcome/
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chinese...perhaps...?
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As a casual perusal of multiple reference works on this subject will reveal, the question, "Which is the oldest language?" quite easily generates several suggestions which almost always include one or more of the following venerable candidates: (in no particular order) SUMERIAN, AKKADIAN, CHINESE, EGYPTIAN, PHRYGIAN, SANSKRIT, PHOENICIAN, etc., etc. And, such a list, of course, obliges the questor to make his own limited choice...
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try this\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
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Of course Chinese. Japanese have "stolen" a lot of characters from Chinese and developed two sets of symbols of their own  syllabic writing: hiragana and katakana, which symbols, strictly speaking, are not characters. But even if you add up hiragana and katakana symbols together with the characters that they are using, the number will still be much less than the number of characters used in Chinese.
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Yes as someone has answered above, these languages  descended from Proto-Indo-European.
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It isn't from millions of years in the past, only a few thousand. We translate many languages that old, such as Egyptian and various Cuneiform languages. But knowledge of Hebrew has been remarkably preserved through the millennia compared to these other languages, and we also have many other linguistic tools at our disposal to help us get accurate translations of the Hebrew texts.
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Chinese dont have alphabets.. they just have characters, that stand for words.. so each word in chinese has its own unique character. There are over 6000 known characters in traditional chinese, more than 5000 characters in simplified chinese and more than 3500 characters in simplified chinese that are frequently used in day-to-day life!!!! Hope this answers your question...
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Hebrew, French, Italian, and Chinese.  Cuz those are the only languages that are major that I dont know.
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Chinese is the older language.  Japanese went to China in the Chin dynasty to learn the language and culture; therefore, lots of Japanese words have Chinese roots, some even have similar meanings.\n\nChina, the sleeping dragon, is the rising power and is the better language to learn.
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Mandarin Chinese is the most prevalent language.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers