evidence proves that IVC was the main source of Near East’s elephant-ivory, it is logical to infer that the similar ‘pīru’-based ivory/elephant-words used across different Near Eastern languages (Akkadian, Hurrian, Elamite, and Old-Persian) were borrowed from languages spoken in ancient ...
By abandoning Chinese characters, Korean and Vietnamese have lost their connection to the ancient language; but it is still a living presence in Chinese, in all its separate modern spoken languages, and Japanese. As with Arabic and Sanskrit, Classical Chinese is simply not a "dead" language....
(Sahara, Sahel). The third is Eastern Berber, which includes languages such as Berber spoken in Siwa (West Egypt), Sokna and El-Fogaha (Fezzan, Central Libya), Yefren and Zuara (Tripolitania, North Libya), and Ghadames (East Libya), as well as all the Berber languages of Tunisia (e...
A Western Aramaic dialect is still spoken in the vicinity of Maʿlūlā, Syria, and Eastern Aramaic survives in the form of Ṭuroyo (native to an area in eastern Turkey), Modern Mandaic (in western Iran), and the Neo-Syriac or Assyrian dialects (in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran). The ...
one of the 22 officiallanguages of India, the second-most inhabited country in the world. India’s incredible linguistic diversity (more than 121 languages coexist) explains the high rate of non-native speakers who use Hindi as a lingua franca. In addition to India, Hindi is spoken by over...
Tujia – Tujia is a living, but quite ancient language spoken in the People’s Republic of China. It has generally been accepted that Tujia doesn’t have a writing system, but that has been challenged by the discovery of a series of ancient, undeciphered books that may, or may not repr...
Although primitive man must have had a spoken language, social scientists have no evidence of written language before the appearance of written records in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt 5-6 thousand years ago. Present-day linguists can identify over 1500 spoken l...
Certain ancient scriptures and cave carvings affirm some of the oldest languages in the world. We often take our language for granted for example English is not the only popular language in the world. Presently linguists estimate that there are over 6900 languages spoken on the earth and they ...
Where It’s Spoken:Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Libya Fun Facts: There is no letter capitalization in Arabic. The Arabic alphabet is known as an “impure abjad.” Letters officially represent consonants only, but there are symbols to indicate vowel sounds. ...
.One famous polyglot is the ancient Egyptian ruler Cleopatra.The ruler of the ancient Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt was believed to speak at least nine languages.Her native language was Greek.She was believed to have learned Egyptian,Hebrew,and Troglodyte.She was also believed to have spoken the ...