culturetrip.com: “The 10 Oldest Languages Still Spoken In The World Today”

The beautifully cursive script that is the Georgian language has been identified by an international cultural website as one of the ten oldest languages still spoken in today’s world.

Georgian was named alongside Hebrew, Farsi, Icelandic and Macedonian languages as among the ten oldest languages still spoken by culturetrip.com.

The article by Lani Seelinger notes language evolution is like biological evolution – "it happens minutely, generation by generation, so there’s no distinct breaking point between one language and the next language that develops from it … [but] each of the languages below has a little something special—something ancient—to differentiate it from the masses”.

"Georgian is the biggest Kartvelian language, and it is the only Caucasian language with an ancient literary tradition,” says Seelinger.

Its beautiful and unique alphabet is also quite old – it is thought to have been adapted from Aramaic as far back as the third century AD. While not a language island in the same sense as Basque, there are only four Kartvelian languages, all spoken by minorities within Georgia, and they are all unrelated to any other languages in the world.”

Other languages on the list were Tamil, Lithuanian, Basque, Finish and Irish Gaelic.

Read the full article here: www.theculturetrip.com.