About 13 million people still speak Greek today. Currently Greek is spoken in Greece, Albania and Cyprus. The Greek language is the oldest language in Europe, spoken since 1450 years before Christ. Currently, about 1.2 billion people speak Chinese. This language is 1200 years old even before the arrival of Jesus. Standardized Chinese is actually a language called “mandarin”. The Chinese language belongs to the Chinese-Tibetan language-family and is actually a group of languages and dialects. It is spoken in China and some countries of East Asia. Even today the Arabic language is spoken in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Israel, Lebanon and modern Rome.Ĭhinese is the most spoken language in the world. There is evidence of its presence even 1,000 years before Christ. It was once the official language of the Armenian Republic. This language is found in Hebrew and Arabic languages today. In ancient times, the Chinese settled in Korea, so the Korean language is strongly influenced by the Chinese language. At present, about 80 million people speak the Korean language. The Korean language is spoken from around 600 BC. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia. The region falls in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan (northwestern Iran). This language is spoken in Mesopotamia and the intermediate valleys of the caucus and in the southeastern region of the Black Sea. At present, about 5 per cent of people speak this language. The Armenian language originated in 450 BC. Bibles written in the fifth century exist as its earliest appearance. The Armenian language is also part of the Indo-European linguistic group, which is spoken by the Armenians.

Not only this, but there are also 46 languages whose number of speakers is only one.īut do you know which is the oldest language in the world? If you are not aware of the answer to this question then after reading this article you will know which is the oldest language in the world, because in this article we are giving the details of the 10 oldest languages of the world according to the origin. There are about 357 languages that only 50 people speak. There are about 200 to 150 languages that are spoken by more than 1 million people.

According to an estimate, the total number of languages in the world is about 6809, out of which the number of speakers of 90 per cent of the languages is less than 100000. It is not possible to answer exactly how many languages of the world are there.

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