The language of ancient Egypt, dating back to around 3,200 BCE.
Spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, with its earliest records dating back to the 24th century BCE.
Ancient Hebrew traces its roots back to the 10th century BCE, and it is the language of the Hebrew Bible.
A Dravidian language spoken in South India and Sri Lanka, with evidence of its existence dating back to the 3rd century BCE.
The history of Chinese language can be traced back to ancient inscriptions from the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BCE).
Ancient Greek, dating back to around the 9th century BCE, is the language of classical Greece and the works of philosophers like Plato and Aristotle.
An ancient Indo-Aryan language of India, with its earliest form appearing in the Rigveda, dated around 1500–1200 BCE.
Originating in the Near East, it was widely spoken from around the 13th century BCE and continued to be used in various forms until the Middle Ages.
The precursor to the Romance languages, Latin was spoken by the Romans and became the dominant language in the Mediterranean from the 1st century BCE to the 5th century CE.