yeah I agree too.....if you say so then the oldest civilzation of Egyptian,Persian,Indues Valley,Greek are again debatable?.
or I can ask more tangible like you mentioned language which hot got oldest literature or history or whatever.... -----Original Message----- From: Tim Kettering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:30 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Oldest Language I have to agree with those people, it is hard to nail down a "oldest language" because the question itself is too general. What do you define as "language" to start with. At what point do you stop calling it simple communication, and call it a language? And the second difficulty is that many of the oldest (including the oldest) languages were very likely to be spoken only, so as soon as their speakers/culture vanished, the language vanished too. Or they were simply assimliated into another language, a "newer" language. So if you narrow the scope of your question to something more specific, more tangible, like the oldest written language, or earliest known language, you may have better answers. -tim -----Original Message----- From: Ramadoss Chinnakuzhandai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:20 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Oldest Language yeah Tim I googled but was getting pages like the one you mentioned :-) but not what I wanted....and so thought any of you might be better than google ;-) -R -----Original Message----- From: Tim Kettering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:13 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Oldest Language You'd probably be best off asking Google (the one true Oracle). This is what turned up on "world's oldest language", but probably not the answer you were looking for. http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-most-recent/msg01880.html -----Original Message----- From: Ramadoss Chinnakuzhandai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] Oldest Language Hi, If anyone of you might be wizard of liguistics facts...may I know the worlds oldest language? my apology for posting other topic..thought some one is out there to answer. -R --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
