Ancient language may refer to:
- Any language attested from ancient times, see list of languages by first written accounts, historical linguistics
- Languages of classical antiquity, see Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Kannada, Tamil, Chinese, Latin, Arabic.
- Other classical languages
- Any extinct language
- A fictional language in the Inheritance cycle
- Language of the race Ancients in the Stargate fictional universe
Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or language:
“Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago, a church stands near,
By the road an ancient cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase;
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman pass by!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“You can’t write about people out of textbooks, and you can’t use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)