Languages

Human language history

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An interactive archive of human language — scroll backward through attested evidence, from languages of living memory to the first writing on clay. Filters, collections, proportional timelines, and a free JSON dataset.

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Today

The Recent Past

1800 CE — Today

Sentinelese

Still spoken

Region

South Asia

Family

Unclassified

Evidence

Spoken origin (estimated)

No outsider has ever documented a single confirmed word. A living language, spoken right now, about which linguistics knows essentially nothing.

TodayDeep Time

Creoles, sign languages, revivals, and inventions — alongside ancient tongues written down for the first time.

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