List of languages by first written account

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This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered writing systems, though there are various claims without wide acceptance, which, if substantiated, would push backward the first attestation of certain languages. It also does not include inscriptions consisting of isolated words or names from a language. In most cases, some form of the language had already been spoken (and even written) considerably earlier than the dates of the earliest extant samples provided here.

A written record may encode a stage of a language corresponding to an earlier time, either as a result of oral tradition, or because the earliest source is a copy of an older manuscript that was lost. An oral tradition of epic poetry may typically bridge a few centuries, and in rare cases, over a millennium. An extreme case is the Vedic Sanskrit of the Rigveda: the earliest parts of this text date to c. 1500 BC,[1] while the oldest known manuscripts date to c. 1040 AD.[2] Similarly the oldest Avestan texts, the Gathas, are believed to have been composed before 1000 BC, but the oldest Avestan manuscripts date from the 13th century AD.[3]

Before 1000 BC

Further information:
Bronze Age writing

Writing first appeared in the

alphabetic writing
:

In East Asia towards the end of the second millennium BC, the Sino-Tibetan family was represented by Old Chinese.

There are also a number of undeciphered Bronze Age records:

Earlier symbols, such as the Jiahu symbols or Vinča symbols, are believed to be proto-writing, rather than representations of language.

Date Language Attestation Notes
c. 2690 BC Egyptian Egyptian hieroglyphs constituting the earliest complete sentence known, found in the tomb of Seth-Peribsen (2nd Dynasty), Umm El Qa'ab. This sentence refers to the entombed king's father and translates as, "He has united the Two Lands for his son, Dual King Peribsen."[6] So-called "proto-hieroglyphic" inscriptions, such as those on the Narmer Palette, are known from 3300 BC on, although these instances of written Egyptian are rebus-like and confined to semi-grammatical captions, labels, and proper names. See also, Naqada III and Abydos, Egypt.
c. 2600 BC Sumerian
Fara period)[7][8]
 "proto-literate" period from about 3500 BC (see Kish tablet); administrative records at Uruk and Ur from c. 2900 BC.

Various texts from Ur during the Early Dynastic I–II period (c. 2800 BC) show syllabic elements with clear signs of the Sumerian language.[9]

c. 2600 BC Akkadian A hymn to the sun-god Šamaš found at Tell Abū Ṣalābīḫ.[10] Some proper names attested in
Legend of Etana at Tell Harmal c. 2600 BC.[12] A few dozen pre-Sargonic texts from Mari and other sites in northern Babylonia.[13]
c. 2400 BC Eblaite Ebla tablets[14]
24th century BC Northwest Semitic Protective spells in Pyramid Texts 235, 236, 281, 286 from the Pyramid of Unas, written in hieroglyphic script but unintelligible as Egyptian[15][16] Ugaritic is the earliest Northwest Semitic language to be unambiguously attested within its native context, c. 1300 BC.
c. 2250 BC Elamite Awan dynasty peace treaty with Naram-Sin[17][18] The Proto-Elamite script attested from c. 3100 BC remains undeciphered; the identity of the language communicated thereby is unknown. The date of c. 2250 BC is based off the advent of Linear Elamite.
21st century BC Hurrian Temple inscription of Tish-atal in Urkesh[19]
c. 1800 BC Amorite Bilingual Amorite-Akkadian vocabulary[20] See also tablet CUNES 50-11-020 (P411253)
c. 1700 BC Hittite Anitta text in Hittite cuneiform[21] Isolated Hittite words and names occur in Assyrian texts found at Kültepe, from the 19th century BC.[21]
16th century BC Palaic
Hittite texts CTH 751–754[22]
c. 1450 BC
Mycenaean Greek
 Linear B tablet archive from Knossos[23][24][25] These are mostly administrative lists, with some complete sentences.[26]
c. 1400 BC Luwian
Hieroglyphic Luwian monumental inscriptions, Cuneiform Luwian tablets in the Hattusa archives[27]
 Isolated hieroglyphs appear on seals from the 18th century BC.[27]
c. 1400 BC Hattic
Hittite texts
CTH 725–745
c. 1300 BC
Ugaritic
 Tablets from Ugarit[28][29]
c. 1250 BC Old Chinese Oracle bone and bronze inscriptions from the reign of Wu Ding[30][31][32]
  • Seal impression from the tomb of Seth-Peribsen, containing the oldest known complete sentence in Egyptian, c. 2690 BC[6]
    Seal impression from the tomb of Seth-Peribsen, containing the oldest known complete sentence in Egyptian, c. 2690 BC[6]
  • Letter in Sumerian cuneiform sent by the high-priest Lu'enna, informing the king of Lagash of his son's death in battle, c. 2400 BC[33]
    Letter in
    Sumerian cuneiform sent by the high-priest Lu'enna, informing the king of Lagash of his son's death in battle, c. 2400 BC[33]
  • Greek Linear B tablet from Pylos, recording the distribution of hides, c. 1200 BC
    Greek Linear B tablet from Pylos, recording the distribution of hides, c. 1200 BC
  • Ox scapula inscribed with three records of divinations in the reign of Wu Ding of the Chinese Shang dynasty, c. 1200 BC
    Ox scapula inscribed with three records of divinations in the reign of Wu Ding of the Chinese Shang dynasty, c. 1200 BC

First millennium BC

Ahiram epitaph is the earliest substantial inscription in Phoenician
.

The earliest known alphabetic inscriptions, at

Northwest Semitic
language, though only one or two words have been deciphered. In the
Brahmic family of scripts, languages of India
are attested from after about 300 BC.

There is only fragmentary evidence for languages such as

Messapian.[34]
The North Picene language of the Novilara Stele from c. 600 BC has not been deciphered.[35] The few brief inscriptions in Thracian dating from the 6th and 5th centuries BC have not been conclusively deciphered.[36] The earliest examples of the Central American Isthmian script date from c. 500 BC, but a proposed decipherment remains controversial.[37]

Date Language Attestation Notes
c. 1000 BC Phoenician
Ahiram epitaph[38]
10th century BC
Aramaic
 Royal inscriptions from
Aramean city-states[39]
10th century BC Hebrew or Phoenician Gezer calendar[40]
Paleo-Hebrew
employed a slightly modified Phoenician alphabet, hence the uncertainty between which language is attested here.
c. 850 BC Ammonite Amman Citadel Inscription[41]
c. 840 BC Moabite Mesha Stele
c. 820 BC Urartian Inscriptions in Assyrian cuneiform script[42]
c. 800 BC Phrygian Paleo-Phrygian inscriptions at Gordion[43]
8th century BC
Old South Arabian
)		 Mainly boustrophedon inscriptions from Yemen[44]
8th century BC Old Arabic Prayer inscription at Bayir, Jordan[45] It is a bi-lingual inscription written in Old Arabic which was written in the undifferentiated North Arabian script (known as Thamudic B) and Canaanite which remains undeciphered.
c. 700 BC Etruscan Proto-Corinthian vase found at Tarquinia[46]
7th century BC Latin Vetusia Inscription and Fibula Praenestina[47]
c. 600 BC Lydian Inscriptions from Sardis[27]
c. 600 BC Carian Inscriptions from Caria and Egypt[27]
c. 600 BC Faliscan Ceres inscription found at Falerii[48]
early 6th century BC Umbrian Text painted on the handle of a krater found near Tolfa[49]
c. 550 BC Taymanitic Esk 168 and 177[50] The Taymanitic script is mentioned in an 8th century BC document from Carchemish.[51]
c. 550 BC South Picene Warrior of Capestrano[52]
mid-6th century BC Venetic Funerary inscriptions at Este[53]
late 6th century BC Lemnian Lemnos Stele[54]
c. 500 BC Old Persian Behistun Inscription
c. 500 BC Lepontic Inscriptions CO-48 from Pristino (Como) and VA-6 from Vergiate (Varese)[55][56] Inscriptions from the early 6th century consist of isolated names.
c. 300 BC Oscan Lovilae from Capua[57] Coin legends date from the late 5th century BC.[58]
3rd century BC
Gaulish
 Transalpine Gaulish inscriptions in Massiliote Greek script[59]
3rd century BC Volscian Tabula Veliterna[60]
c. 260 BC Ashokan Prakrit Edicts of Ashoka[61][62] Potsherds inscribed with Brahmi letters from Anuradhapura have been dated c. 400 BC, and range from isolated letters to names in the genitive case.[63][64]
c. 200 BC Elu (Sri Lankan Prakrit) Brahmi inscription at Mihintale[65]
early 2nd century BC Old Tamil Rock inscription ARE 465/1906 at Mangulam caves, Tamil Nadu[66] (Other authors give dates from late 3rd century BC to 1st century AD.[67][68]) Pottery inscribed with personal names has been found at
Keeladi, a site that was occupied between the 6th century BC and 1st century AD.[69]

5th century BC inscriptions on potsherds found in Kodumanal, Porunthal and Palani have been claimed as Tamil-Brahmi,[70][71] but this is disputed.[72]

2nd century BC Meroitic Graffiti on the temple of Amun at Dukki Gel, near Kerma[73]
c. 146 BC Numidian
Punic-Libyan Inscription at Dougga[74]
c. 100 BC Celtiberian
Botorrita plaques
1st century BC Parthian Ostraca at
Nisa and Qumis[75]
1st century BC Sanskrit
Hathibada Ghosundi Inscriptions (both near Chittorgarh)[76]
 The Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman (shortly after 150 AD) is the oldest long text.[77]

First millennium AD

From

Armenian Bible translation
.

The

Negau helmet
inscription (c. 100 BC) as a Germanic fragment.

Date Language Attestation Notes
c. 150 Bactrian Rabatak inscription
c. 200 Proto-Norse inscription NITHIJO TAWIDE on shield grip from the Illerup Ådal weapon deposit Single Proto-Norse words are found on the
Vimose Comb
(c. 160).
292 Mayan Stela 29 from Tikal[78] A brief undeciphered inscription at San Bartolo is dated to the 3rd century BC.[79]
312–313 Sogdian Ancient Letters, found near Dunhuang[80]
328
Arabic
 Namara inscription
c. 350
Ge'ez
 inscriptions of
Ezana of Aksum[81]
c. 350 Cham
Tra Kiêu[82]
4th century Gothic
Wulfila[83]
 A few problematic Gothic runic inscriptions may date to the early 4th century.
c. 400 Tocharian B THT 274 and similar manuscripts[84] Some Tocharian names and words have been found in Prakrit documents from
Krorän dated c. 300.[85]
c. 430 Old Georgian Bir el Qutt inscription #1[86] Inscription #2, made around the same time, is currently missing.
c. 450 Old Kannada Halmidi inscription[87] A date of 350 has been claimed for the Tagarthi inscription found in
Shivamogga district, but this is disputed.[88] Kavirajamarga (c. 850) is the oldest literary work.[87]
c. 478-490[89] Classical Armenian inscription at the
Tekor Basilica[90]
Armenian Bible
in 434.
5th century Frankish/Old Dutch Bergakker inscription[91] There is no consensus on the interpretation of the text, leading to the language uncertainty.
c. 510 Old Dutch formula for freeing a serf in the Malbergse Glossen on the Salic law[92] Some scholars consider the formula to be in Frankish instead.[93]
6th century Vandalic A sentence in the Collatio beati Augustini cum Pascentio ariano (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS G.V. 26)[94] Copy of a text originally written in the first half of the 5th century.
second half of 6th century Old High German Pforzen buckle[95]
mid-6th century Old Korean Mokgan No. 221[96]
c. 575 Telugu Erragudipadu inscription[87] Telugu place names are found in Prakrit inscriptions from the 2nd century AD.[87]
611 Old Khmer
Angkor Borei inscription K. 557/600[97]
c. 650 Old Japanese mokkan wooden tablets[98] Poems in the Kojiki (711–712) and Nihon Shoki (720) have been transmitted in copied manuscripts.
c. 650–700
Old Udi
Sinai palimpsest
M13
c. 683
Old Malay
Kedukan Bukit Inscription[99]
7th century Bailang commentary on the Book of the Later Han by Li Xian citing the mostly lost Dongguan Hanji[100]
7th century Tumshuqese and Khotanese Saka manuscripts mainly from Dunhuang[101] Some fragments of Khotanese Saka have been dated to the 5th and 6th centuries
7th century Beja ostracon from Saqqara[102][103]
late 7th century
Pyu
 Hpayahtaung funeral urn inscription of kings of
Sri Ksetra
c. 700 Old English Franks Casket The Undley bracteate (5th century) and West Heslerton brooch (c. 650) have fragmentary runic inscriptions.
732 Old Turkic Orkhon inscriptions
c. 750 Old Irish Würzburg glosses[104] Primitive Irish Ogham inscriptions from the 4th century consist of personal names, patronymics and/or clan names.[105][106]
c. 765 Old Tibetan Lhasa Zhol Pillar[107] Dated entries in the Tibetan Annals begin at 650, but extant manuscripts postdate the Tibetan occupation of Dunhuang in 786.[108]
late 8th century Breton Praecepta medica (Leyden, Codex Vossianus Lat. F. 96 A)[109] A botanical manuscript in Latin and Breton
c. 750–900 Old Frisian Westeremden yew-stick
c. 800 Old Norse runic inscriptions
804 Old Javanese initial part of the Sukabumi inscription (id), found near Kediri[110]
early 9th century Old Saxon
Heiland and Old Saxon Genesis, found in Palatinus Latinus 1447[111]
 The 9th century Old Saxon Baptismal Vow appears to be a copy from the 8th century; however, scholars dispute whether it is in Old Saxon or another Germanic language[112][113][114][115]
9th century Old Malayalam Vazhappally copper plate[116] The status of the Edakkal-5 inscriptions dating back to 3rd or late 4th century is contested.[117][118]Ramacaritam (12th century) is the oldest literary work.[116]
9th century Old Welsh Cadfan Stone (Tywyn 2)[119]
late 9th century Old French Sequence of Saint Eulalia[120] The earliest surviving manuscript with the text for the Oaths of Strasbourg (842), traditionally considered the first Old French text, dates from the 11th century.[121]
882 Balinese dated royal inscription[122]
c. 900 Old Occitan Tomida femina
c. 959–974 Old Leonese
Nodicia de Kesos
c. 960–963 Italian Placiti Cassinesi[123] The Veronese Riddle (c. 800) is considered a mixture of Italian and Latin.[124]
986 Khitan Memorial for Yelü Yanning
late 10th century Old Church Slavonic Kiev Missal[125]
Methodius
translated religious literature from c. 862, but only later manuscripts survive.
late 10th century Konkani/Marathi inscription on the Gommateshwara statue[126] The inscription is in
Devanagari script, but the language has been disputed between Marathi and Konkani scholars.[127][128]
10th century Romansh a sentence in the Würzburg manuscript[129]

1000–1500 AD

Date Language Attestation Notes
972–1093 Slovene Freising manuscripts
late 10th–early 11th century Serbian Hilandar Fragments, Temnić inscription
c. 1000 Faroese inscription at Kirkjubøur[130]
c. 1000 Old East Slavic Novgorod Codex[131]
c. 1000
Navarro-Aragonese (Aragonese) and Basque
 Glosas Emilianenses The first word on the Hand of Irulegi (1st century BC) has been claimed as Basque.[132][133]
c. 1028 Catalan Jurament Feudal[134]
1058 Burmese a dated inscription[135] A brief Burmese inscription appears in a copper-gilded umbrella also inscribed in
Sanskrit dated 1035 found near the Mahabodhi Temple, but only a name and some numerals can be made out in certainty due to damage.[136][137] An 18th century copy of a stone inscription made in 984 also exists.[138]
11th century
Mozarabic
 kharjas appended to Arabic and Hebrew poems[139] Isolated words are found in glossaries from the 8th century.[140]
c. 11th century Croatian Humac tablet (variously dated to between the 10th and 12th century), Inscription of Krk, Inscription of Župa Dubrovačka, Plomin tablet, Valun tablet
c. 1100 Ossetian Zelančuk inscription[141]
1114 Newar palm-leaf manuscript from Uku Baha, Patan[142]
1127 Jurchen inscription found on the bank of the
Arkhara River[143]
c. 1175
Galician-Portuguese
 Notícia de Fiadores[144] The
Notícia de Torto and the will of Afonso II of Portugal, dated 1214, are often cited as the first documents written in Galician-Portuguese.[145] A date prior to 1175 has been proposed for the Pacto dos Irmãos Pais.[146]
1192
Old Hungarian
 Funeral Sermon and Prayer There are isolated fragments in earlier charters such as the charter of Veszprém (c. 1000) and the charter of Tihany (1055). Some scholars believe that the language of the Szarvas inscription (8th century) is Old Hungarian.
mid-12th century Icelandic AM 237 a fol. manuscript[147]
late 12th century Old Norwegian AM 655 IX 4to manuscript[148]
late 12th century Bosnian copies A,B, and C of the Charter of Ban Kulin[149] Originally created in 1189
c. 1200 Spanish Cantar de mio Cid Previously the Glosas Emilianenses and the Nodicia de kesos were considered the oldest texts in Spanish; however, later analyses concluded them to be Aragonese and Leonese, respectively.[150]
c. 1200 Finnic Birch bark letter no. 292
c. 1200–1230 Czech founding charter of the Litoměřice chapter
1224–1225 Mongolian Stele of Genghis Khan
early 13th century Punjabi poetry of
Fariduddin Ganjshakar
early 13th century Cornish prophesy in the cartulary of Glasney College[151] A 9th century gloss in
De Consolatione Philosophiae by Boethius: ud rocashaas is controversially interpreted.[152][153]
c. 1250 Old Swedish fragments of the elder Westrogothic law in Codex Holm. B 193[154]
c. 1250 Kashmiri Mahanayakaprakash ("Light of the supreme lord") by Shitikantha[155]
c. 1270
Old Polish
 a sentence in the Book of Henryków
1272 Yiddish blessing in the Worms mahzor
c. 1274
Western Lombard
Bonvesin de la Riva
c. 1292 Thai
Ramkhamhaeng stele
 Some scholars argue that the stele is a forgery. The next oldest inscription is the
Wat Sri Chum inscription from the early 14th century.[156]
late 13th century
Old Danish
 manuscripts AM 37 4to, AM 24 4to, SKB C 37, SKB B 74[157]
13th century Tigrinya a text of laws found in Logosarda
c. 1350
Ottoman Turkish
)		 works of Imadaddin Nasimi
c. 1350 Old Gutnish Gutasaga and Gutalagen, found in Codex Holm. B 64[158]
c. 1369 Old Prussian Basel Epigram[159]
1372 Komi
Abur
inscriptions
1386 Slovak Rhymed sentence in Latin codex[160] Toponyms, personal names and glosses are found from 11th century.[161]
early 15th century
Bengali-Assamese languages
 poems of Chandidas[162] The 10th-century Charyapada are written in a language ancestral to Bengali, Assamese and Oriya.[162]
c. 1440 Vietnamese Quốc âm thi tập[163] List of names in
Chữ nôm date from the early 13th century.[164]
1462 Albanian Formula e pagëzimit, a baptismal formula in a letter of Archbishop Pal Engjëll Some scholars interpret a few lines in the Bellifortis text (1405) as Albanian.[165]
c. 1470 Finnish single sentence in a German travel journal[166] The first printed book in Finnish is Abckiria (1543) by Mikael Agricola.
c. 1470 Maltese
Il Cantilena
1485
Yi
 bronze bell inscription in Dafang County, Guizhou[167]
15th century Tulu inscriptions in an adaptation of Malayalam script[168]

After 1500

Date Language Attestation Notes
c. 1503 Lithuanian hand-written Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary and Creed[169] Katekizmas (1547) by Martynas Mažvydas was the first printed book in Lithuanian.
1517 Belarusian Psalter of Francysk Skaryna
1521 Romanian Neacșu's letter Cyrillic orthographic manual of Constantine of Kostenets from 1420 documents earlier written usage.[170] Four 16th century documents, namely Codicele Voronețean, Psaltirea Scheiană, the Hurmuzaki Psalter and Psaltirea Voronețeană, are arguably copies of 15th century originals.[171]
1530 Latvian Nicholas Ramm's translation of a hymn
1535 Estonian Wanradt-Koell catechism
1536 Modern Portuguese Grammatica da lingoagem portuguesa by Fernão de Oliveira. by convention.[172]
1540s Old Tupi Jehan Lamy's Le langaige du Bresil
1549 Sylheti Talib Husan by Ghulam Husan earliest extant manuscript found using the Sylheti Nagri script.[173]
1550 Classical Nahuatl Doctrina cristiana en lengua española y mexicana[174] The Breve y mas compendiosa doctrina cristiana en lengua mexicana y castellana (1539) was possibly the first printed book in the New World. No copies are known to exist today.[174]
1554 Extremaduran (mixed with Sayaguese Leonese) works of Diego Sánchez de Badajoz, published as edited by his nephew as Recopilación en metro
1554
Wastek
 grammar by Andrés de Olmos
1557 Kikongo a catechism[175]
1561 Ukrainian Peresopnytsia Gospel
1589 Crimean Gothic 1562 letter from Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq that was published later[176] 9th century Gothic graffiti in Crimea show some Crimean Gothic influence in spelling.[177]
1593 Tagalog
Doctrina Cristiana
c. 1600
Classical Quechua
 Huarochirí Manuscript by a writer identified only as "Thomás"[178] Paraphrased and annotated by Francisco de Ávila in 1608.
1600 Buginese
c. 1610 Manx Book of Common Prayer[179]
1619 Pite Sami primer and missal by Nicolaus Andreaus[180] Early literary works were mainly based on dialects underlying modern
Ume Sami and Pite Sami
. First grammar and dictionary in 1738.
1638 Ternate treaty with Dutch governor[181]
1639 Guarani Tesoro de la lengua guaraní by
Antonio Ruíz de Montoya
1639 modern Asturian Cuando examen les abeyes by Antón de Marirreguera[182]
c. 1650 Ubykh, Abkhaz, Adyghe and Mingrelian Travel Book of Evliya Çelebi[183]
1651
Pashto
 copy of Xayru 'l-bayān in the library of the University of Tübingen[184] The Pata Khazana, purporting to date from the 8th century, is considered by most scholars to be a forgery.[184]
1663 Massachusett Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God Also known as the Eliot Indian Bible or the Algonquian Bible
1693 Tunisian Arabic copy of a Tunisian poem written by
Sheykh Hassan el-Karray[185]
 Before 1700, lyrics of songs were not written in Tunisian Arabic but in Classical Arabic.[185]
c. 1695 Seri grammar and vocabulary compiled by Adamo Gilg No longer known to exist.[186]
17th century Hausa Riwayar Annabi Musa by Abdallah Suka[187]
late 17th century Basque–Icelandic pidgin Vocabula Gallica[188]
18th century
Língua Geral of São Paulo
 Vocabulário da Língua Geral dos Índios das Américas (anonymous)[189] Another source is the dictionary by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1867) and the vocabulary (1936) by José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira. The language is now extinct.
1711 Swahili letters written in Kilwa[190]
1718 Sranan Tongo Herlein fragment[191]
1728
Northern Sami
 Catechism An early wordlist was published in 1589 by Richard Hakluyt. First grammar in 1743
1736 Greenlandic Grönländische Grammatica by Paul Egede[192] A poor-quality wordlist was recorded by
John Davis in 1586.[193]
1743 Chinese Pidgin English sentence recorded in Macau by George Anson[194]
1747 Borgarmålet Beskrifning öfwer Sweriges Lapmarker by Pehr Högström[195]
1757 Haitian Creole Lisette quitté la plaine by Duvivier de la Mahautière[196][197]
1788
Sydney language
 notebooks of William Dawes[198][199]
1795 Afrikaans doggerel verses[200]
1800 Inuktitut "Eskimo Grammar" by Moravian missionaries[192] A list of 17 words was recorded in 1576 by Christopher Hall, an assistant to Martin Frobisher.[192][193]
1806 Tswana Heinrich Lictenstein – Upon the Language of the Beetjuana The first complete Bible translation was published in 1857 by Robert Moffat.
1819 Cherokee Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary
1820 Maori grammar by Thomas Kendall and Samuel Lee Kendal began compiling wordlists in 1814.
1820 Aleut description by Rasmus Rask A short word list was collected by James King in 1778.
1823 Xhosa John Bennie's Xhosa reading sheet Complete Bible translation 1859
c. 1833 Vai Vai syllabary created by Momolu Duwalu Bukele.
1833 Sotho reduced to writing by French missionaries Casalis and Arbousset First grammar book 1841 and complete Bible translation 1881
1837 Zulu Incwadi Yokuqala Yabafundayo First grammar book 1859 and complete Bible translation 1883
1839 Lule Sami pamphlet by Lars Levi Laestadius Dictionary and grammar by
Karl Bernhard Wiklund
in 1890-1891
1845 Santali A Santali Primer by Jeremiah Phillips[201]
1849 Solombala English Ocerki Arxangel'skoj Gubernii by Vasilij Vereščagin[202]
1851
Sakha (Yakut)
 Über die Sprache der Jakuten, a grammar by Otto von Böhtlingk Wordlists were included in Noord en Oost Tartarije (1692) by
Nicolaas Witsen and Das Nord-und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia (1730) by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg
.
1854 Inari Sami grammar by Elias Lönnrot Primer and catechism published in 1859.
1856 Gamilaraay articles by William Ridley[203] Basic vocabulary collected by Thomas Mitchell in 1832.
1864 Français Tirailleur letter by P. Durpatz[204]
1872 Venda reduced to writing by the Berlin Missionaries First complete Bible translation 1936
1878 Kildin Sami Gospel of Matthew
1882
Mirandese
 O dialecto mirandez by José Leite de Vasconcelos[205] The
Mirandese: Flores mirandezas (1884)[206]
1884
Skolt Sami
 Gospel of Matthew in Cyrillic
1885 Carrier Barkerville Jail Text, written in pencil on a board in the then recently created Carrier syllabics Although the first known text by native speakers dates to 1885, the first record of the language is a list of words recorded in 1793 by Alexander MacKenzie.
1885 Motu grammar by W.G. Lawes
1886 Guugu Yimidhirr notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901.[207][208] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language.[209]
1891 Galela grammatical sketch by M.J. van Baarda[210]
1893 Oromo translation of the New Testament by Onesimos Nesib, assisted by Aster Ganno
1900 Qaqet grammar by Matthäus Rascher[211]
1903
Lingala
 grammar by Egide de Boeck
1905 Istro-Romanian Calindaru lu rumeri din Istrie by Andrei Glavina and Constantin Diculescu[212] Compilation of Istro-Romanian popular words, proverbs and stories.[212]
c. 1940 Kamoro materials by
Peter Drabbe[210]
 A Kamoro wordlist recorded in 1828 by Modera and Müller, passengers on a Dutch ship, is the oldest record of any of the non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea.[210][213]
1968 Southern Ndebele small booklet published with praises of their kings and a little history A translation of the New Testament of the Bible was completed in 1986; translation of the Old Testament is ongoing.
1984
Gooniyandi
 survey by William B. McGregor[214]

By family

Attestation by major language family:

Constructed languages

Further information: Constructed language
Date Language Attestation Notes
1879 Volapük created by Johann Martin Schleyer
1887 Esperanto Unua Libro created by L. L. Zamenhof
1907
Ido
 based on Esperanto
1917 Quenya created by J. R. R. Tolkien
1921 Interlingue (as Occidental) Transcendent Algebra by Estonian linguist Jacob Linzbach.[215] created by Edgar de Wahl
1928 Novial created by Otto Jespersen
1935
Sona
 Sona, an auxiliary neutral language created by Kenneth Searight
1943 Interglossa Later became Glosa created by Lancelot Hogben
1951 Interlingua Interlingua–English Dictionary created by the International Auxiliary Language Association
1955 Loglan created by James Cooke Brown
1984 Klingon Star Trek III: The Search for Spock created by Marc Okrand
1987 Lojban based on Loglan, created by the Logical Language Group
1999
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2001 Atlantean Atlantis: The Lost Empire created by Marc Okrand
2004 Ithkuil created by John Quijada
2005
Na'vi
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2009 Dothraki created by George R. R. Martin and David J. Peterson for Game of Thrones
2013 Kiliki Baahubali: The Beginning, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion created by Madhan Karky for Baahubali: The Beginning

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