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:
“It takes place ... always without permanent form, though ancient and familiar as the sun and moon, and as sure to come again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)