When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first...

    notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [207] [208] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [209] 1891: Galela: grammatical sketch by M.J. van Baarda [210] 1893: Oromo

  3. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_documents

    The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.

  4. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_time...

    All that was recorded of it was a list of seven words in the late 1790s. after 1794: Magiana: Arawakan: Bolivia: Magiana, an extinct Bolivia-Parana Arawakan language of Bolivia attested only with the wordlist in Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz 1989 [1794]. after 1791: Eora/Dharug: Pama-Nyungan: Queensland and New South Wales, Australia [251 ...

  5. Oldest language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_language

    a Proto-human language, the hypothetical, most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages; the date of attestation in writing . see list of languages by first written accounts. the conservative nature of a given language (low rate of language change, viz. "old" in the sense of "has not changed much for a long time"), see

  6. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_languages

    The oldest written records of the Quechuan languages was created by Domingo de Santo Tomás, who arrived in Peru in 1538 and learned the language from 1540. He published his Grammatica o arte de la lengua general de los indios de los reynos del Perú (Grammar or Art of the General Language of the Indians of the Royalty of Peru) in 1560. [ 131 ]

  7. Origin of language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language

    The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries.Scholars wishing to study the origins of language draw inferences from evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition, and comparisons between human language and systems of animal ...

  8. World's oldest wine has been discovered with an unexpected ...

    www.aol.com/news/world-oldest-wine-discovered...

    The world’s oldest wine has been discovered at a Roman burial site in Spain, and one thing is clear — it definitely had body. For roughly 2,000 years, ...

  9. Sumerian language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language

    A related proposal by Gordon Whittaker [66] is that the language of the proto-literary texts from the Late Uruk period (c. 3350–3100 BC) is really an early extinct branch of Indo-European language which he terms "Euphratic" which somehow emerged long prior to the accepted timeline for the spread of Indo-European into West Asia, though this is ...