Timeline for Oldest proto-languages
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| Aug 14, 2023 at 17:06 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | @cmw I don't read Chinese either, therefore I leave that date open. | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 17:05 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | I don't remember where I found the late date for Proto-Dravidian but skimming some sources suggests you are right. I correct the statement in my answer | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 17:02 | comment | added | cmw | 梁敏 and 张均如 (1996) estimate Proto-Tai-Kadai at before 3000 BCE (i.e. 5000 YBP). I can't read Chinese, so I haven't bothered to track it down to check their reasoning. | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 15:29 | history | edited | Sir Cornflakes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected date for Proto-Dravidian
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| Aug 14, 2023 at 14:59 | comment | added | abhishek | and Old Tamil is attested as far back as maybe the 3rd century BC. By 500BC, Tamil and Telugu were almost definitely already different (Korada Mahadeva Śāstri, in "Early Inscriptional Telugu", dates Prehistoric Telugu to 600-200BC) | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 14:54 | comment | added | abhishek | Who estimated Proto-Dravidian at 500BC? We have Dravidian loans into Vedic Sanskrit that are older than that (Krishnamurti, "The Dravidian Languages", 2003:6). Almost every glottochronological estimate for Proto-Dravidian I've seen places it in the third millennium BC (Krishnamurti 2003:15, 27 for example) | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 16:32 | comment | added | user54748 | If it existed, Proto-World is oldest by definition, and in the same manner is any hypothesized proto-language older then it's descendants :) Thank you for the data on Proto-Niger-Kongo and the rest though, and @Gaston for the Pama-Nyungan. I thought it would be older than that too. | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 15:40 | history | edited | Sir Cornflakes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added date for proto-Niger-Kongo
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| Aug 25, 2015 at 10:40 | comment | added | Gaston Ümlaut | Various authors have suggested dates for proto-Pama-Nyungan ranging from 4,000–6,000 years BP, so a long way short of the time depths the OP is interested in. | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 10:16 | history | answered | Sir Cornflakes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |