By Family
Attestation by major language family:
- Afro-Asiatic: since about the 28th c. BC
- 28th c. BC: Egyptian
- 24th c. BC: Semitic (Eblaite, Akkadian)
- 16th c. BC: West Semitic (Canaanite)
- Hurro-Urartian: ca. 20th c. BC
- Indo-European: since about the 19th c. BC
- 19th c. BC: Anatolian
- 15th-14th c. BC: Greek
- 7th c. BC: Italic
- 6th c. BC: Celtic
- 6th c. BC: Indo-Iranian
- 2nd c. AD: Germanic
- 9th c. AD: Balto-Slavic
- Sino-Tibetan: about 1200 BC
- roughly 1200 BC: Old Chinese
- 9th c. AD: Tibeto-Burman (Tibetan)
- Dravidian: 3rd c. BC
- Austronesian: 3rd c. AD
- Mayan: 3rd c. AD
- South Caucasian: 5th c. (Georgian)
- Northeast Caucasian: 7th c. (Udi)
- Austro-Asiatic: 7th c. (Khmer)
- Altaic: 8th c.
- 8th c.: Turkic (Old Turkic)
- 8th c.: Japonic
- 13th c.: Mongolic
- Nilo-Saharan: 9th c. (Old Nubian)
- Basque: 10th c.
- Uralic: 11th century
- 11th c. Ugric (Hungarian)
- 13th c. Finnic
- Tai–Kadai: 13th c.
- Uto-Aztecan: 16th c.
- Quechuan: 16th c.
- Niger–Congo (Bantu): 18th c.
- Indigenous Australian languages: 18th c.
- Iroquoian: 19th c.
- Papuan languages: 20th c.
Read more about this topic: List Of Languages By First Written Accounts
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