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THE TOP 3 OLDEST LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD. BY NIKKIL AMARNATH

THE TOP 3 OLDEST LANGUAGES ARE 1. TAMIL Tamil is a dravidan language known as the world oldest language. It is dating back to 3200 BC .Tamil is the one of the 20 most spoken languages in the world.18. TAMIL has 68.8 million people speaking it. Tamil is India’s fifth most spoken language, as well as being one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and Singapore. Catamaran (1697), pariah (1613), poppadum (1820) and patchouli (1843) are all Tamil words, as is curry (1598). Tamil is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians. Tamil is an official language of two countries: Sri Lanka and Singapore. 2. SANSKRIT Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism; and a literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval South Asia. 3.KANNADA Kannada (/ˈkɑːnədə, ˈkæn-/;[5][6] [ˈkʌnːəɖɑː]) (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ), also known as Canarese or Kanarese /kænəˈriːz/,[7] is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and abroad. The language has roughly 38 million native speakers,[8] who are called Kannadigas (Kannadigaru), and a total of 51 million speakers according to a 2001 census.[9] It is one of the scheduled languages of India and the official and administrative language of the state of Karnataka.[10]

The Kannada language is written using the Kannada script, which evolved from the 5th-century Kadamba script. Kannada is attested epigraphically for about one and a half millennia, and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th-century Ganga dynasty[11] and during the 9th-century Rashtrakuta Dynasty.[12][13] Kannada has an unbroken literary history of over a thousand years.[14