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This is a
list of languages by first written accounts which consists of the approximate dates for the
first written accounts that are known for various
languages.
Because of the way languages change gradually, it's usually impossible to pinpoint when a given language began to be spoken with any precision. In many cases, some form of the language had already been spoken (and even written) considerably earlier than the dates of the earliest extant samples provided here.
There are also various claims regarding still-
undeciphered scripts without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages.
A written record may encode a stage of a language corresponding to an earlier time — either as a result of
oral tradition, or because the earliest source is a copy of an older manuscript that was lost. Oral tradition of
epic poetry may typically bridge a few centuries, but in rare cases, over a millennium. An extreme case is the
Vedic Sanskrit of the
Rigveda: the earliest parts of this text are dated to ca. 1500 BC, while the oldest known manuscript dates to the 11th century AD, corresponding to a gap of approximately 2,500 years.
For languages that have developed out of a known predecessor, dates provided here are subject to conventional terminology. For example,
Old French developed gradually out of
Vulgar Latin, and the
Oaths of Strasbourg (842) listed are the earliest text that's classified as "Old French". Similarly,
Danish and
Swedish separate from common
Old East Norse in the 12th century, while
Norwegian separates from
Old West Norse around 1300.
Before 1000 BC
1st millennium BC
1st millennium AD
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Bactrian - - c. 150: Rabatak inscription
Common Germanic/Proto-Norse - c. 160: Vimose inscriptions
Cham - c. 200
Maya - c. 200
Basque - c. 300: Iruña-Veleia archaeological site
Gothic - c. 300: Gothic runic inscriptions
Primitive Irish - c. 300-400: Ogham inscriptions
Georgian - c. 430: a Georgian church in Bethlehem
Kannada - c. 450: Halmidi inscription
West Germanic - 6th century (Old Low Franconian - c. 510: Salic law; Old High German - c. 550: Pforzen buckle; Old English - Undley bracteate; c. 650: Franks Casket; West Heslerton brooch)
Arabic - 512: pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions
Cambodian - c. 600
Tibetan - c. 600
Udi - c. 600: Mount Sinai palimpsest M13
Telugu - 620
Old Malay - c. 683: Kedukan Bukit Inscription
Tocharian - c. 700
Old Turkic - c. 700 Orkhon
Old Irish - c. 700
Japanese - c. 700
Welsh - c. 700: Tywyn inscriptions
Old Frisian - c. 750
Old Hindi - 769: Dohakosh by Saraha
Malayalam - c. 800
Old Norse - c. 800 (runic)
Javanese - 804
Old French - c. 842: Oaths of Strasbourg
Bulgarian - c. 862
Bengali Language -c. 900 charyapada
Russian - c. 950-1000: Gnezdovo inscription, Birch bark documents, Novgorod Codex
Italian - c. 960-963:
Old Church Slavonic - 993: Inscription on a gravestone erected by Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria
1000-1500 AD
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Slovenian - 972-1093: (Freising manuscripts)
Hungarian - c. 1000: the Charter of the Nuns of Veszprémvölgy
Balinese - c.1000
Ossetic - c. 1000
Aragonese and Spanish - ca. 1000: Glosas Emilianenses
Catalan - c. 1028: Jurament Feudal
Middle High German - 1050 (by convention)
Middle English - 1066 (by convention)
Piedmontese - 1080
Croatian - c. 1100: Baška tablet
Danish - c. 1100
Swedish - c. 1100
Nepal Bhasa - 1114: "The Palmleaf from Uku Bahal"
Middle Dutch - 1150 (by convention)
Portuguese and/or Galician - 1189
Serbian - between 1186 and 1190: The Gospels of Miroslav
Bosnian - 1189: The Charter of Kulin
Czech - c. 1200-1230
Western Lombard - c. 1250: Sordello da Goito, "Sirventese lombardesco"
Polish - c. 1270: Book of Henryków
Yiddish - 1272
Thai - c. 1292
Old Norwegian - c. 1300
Batak - c.1300
Finnic - c. 1300 Birch bark letter no. 292 (Finnish proper: Abckiria, 1543)
Old Prussian - c. 1350
Kashmiri - c. 1350
Oghuz Turkic (including Ottoman Turkish) - c. 1350 (Imadaddin Nasimi)
Komi - 1372
Korean - 1446 (Hunmin Jeongeum)
Albanian - 1462
Maltese language - c. 1470: Cantilena
Early Modern English - 1470s (by convention)
After 1500 AD
Constructed languages
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