Portal:Ancient Near East/DYK/2
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...that the ancient Elamite language is proposed to be distantly related to the modern Dravidian languages? It is attested from ca. 2500 BC, and a still undeciphered "proto-Elamite" goes back to ca. 3000 BC.
...that the earliest attested Semitic language is Akkadian, ca. 2500 BC?
...that the earliest attested Indo-European language is Hittite, from ca. the 18th century BC?
