Answer (1 of 6): All Indo-European languages are exactly equally as old as any other. (See: Is the English language older that the French language?, but also the points here: Is Hebrew the youngest language?) The other languages have addressed …
The oldest attested Indo-European language is Hittite. There are records written in Hittite cuneiform from about 1650 BC (the Anitta text). Hittite loanwords and personal names have been found in Old Assyrian, dated as early as 2000 BC.
Just like Avesta is supposed to be from around 500-600 BCE, Vedic/Sanskrit is also around 300-400 BCE. Dating is extremely difficult and only reasonable guesses are made. It is probably true that Tamil and Sanskrit are the oldest languages of India.
The first written European language that we can read today is the Minoan language, which was recorded in the Cretan Hieroglyphic (c. 2100–1700 BC) and the Cretan Linear A (c. 1800–1450 BC) scripts. Both of these scripts were discovered in 1900 by Sir Arthur Evans, who excavated Knossos Palace on the island of Crete.
The oldest Indo-European language still used today. Thisis definitely Vedic Sanskrit, which is used as a ritual language by Hindus. If we restrict the definition to languages spoken natively, then it is Greek, as Classical Greek, from before 500 BCE, is still intelligible to …
That said, the oldest attested Indo-European language is Hittite, of which the oldest text dates back all the way to the 16th century BC. This extinct language is not only very old, but also very fascinating from a linguistic point of view, since it possesses some archaic features not present in later IE languages, like Ancient Greek and Sanskrit.
Answer (1 of 4): A proposal was made that the Black Sea was once a fresh-water lake or sea behind the Bosphorus when that was a terrain left by the last ice age. It is thought to have given way in about 5500 BCE. Since Indo-Europeans were …
Answer (1 of 4): What is the oldest text from the Indo-European language family? Understanding “text” to mean actual written documents, the oldest known is the Anitta Text, a 16th Century BCE Hittite cuneiform document which records the inscriptions …