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what was the first language spoken by man?
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- 2 decades agoFavorite Answer
Linguists speculate that the earliest language as we know it was Proto-Indo-European - the mother tongue of all Indo-European languages, including those as diverse as Sanskrit and English. Some of the vocabulary has been reconstructed based on the development of known languages over the past few thousand years.
- Vagabond5879Lv 72 decades ago
TAMIL spoken by people in S. E. asia and the language is more than 1,000 years old and has been proven to have been the first language spoken by humans.
- Mr nice guy 2ULv 52 decades ago
English
Yoda spoke it and star wars was many years ago and far away.
Everyone back then spoke English just ask George. So someone from way back then brought English to earth. Then at the tower of babble god confused everyone by giving many new languages
- EliLv 42 decades ago
Like one of the previous posters said we have languages going back thousands of years, almost all have the same common root though.
The only exception is that of the Bushmen of the Kalahari, their clicking sounds are believed to be descended from humanity's only surviving original African language before our ancestors begun the African exodus about 60,000 years ago.
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- Anonymous2 decades ago
Don't know. We have languages doing back thousands of years that we have found examples of, but who knows what "language" they spoke before they started writing stuff down.
- 2 decades ago
"No one yet agrees on when language was first used by humans (or their ancestors). Estimates range from about two million (2,000,000) years ago, during the time of Homo habilis, to as recently as forty thousand (40,000) years ago, during the time of Cro-Magnon man."
second time I quoted that page today
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language