Whats the oldest language in the world?

body language - the wink & wiggle has not changed meaning in a million years

Sumerian is sometimes suggested to be the oldest written language, and it may well be, however it is generally accepted that Sanskrit is the oldest language - it is found in texts dating back to 5000bc.

Sanskrit is one of the oldest. The language of Mesopotamia, I believe it is Sumarian, is also ancient. The oldest is the Word which started the Big Bang, but if I go there, people are going to start giving me their priceless opinons. So I'll say Sanskrit.

TAMIL IS OLDEST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD IF YOU BELIEVE IN SCIENCE......WELL IF PEOPLE ARE NOT EDUCATED AND READY TO BELIEVE STORIES LIKE MAHABARATHA...THEN ANY FREAKIN LANGUAGE LIKE SANSKRIT CAN BE OLD....I BELIEVE IN SCIENCE AS IM EDUCATED....I DONT CARE ABOUT ILLETRATES

TAMIL IS OLDEST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD IF YOU BELIEVE IN SCIENCE......WELL IF PEOPLE ARE NOT EDUCATED AND READY TO BELIEVE STORIES LIKE MAHABARATHA...THEN ANY FREAKIN LANGUAGE LIKE SANSKRIT CAN BE OLD....I BELIEVE IN SCIENCE AS IM EDUCATED so tamil is oldest language based on scientific evidence....I DONT CARE ABOUT ILLETRATES

Language of Love

Since you ask for the "oldest," and not the "earliest" language, we should only consider languages that have been in constant use from an ancient time. We can only really look at languages that have a written form, since spoken languages that do not have a written form can change constantly and there's no way to know if they are the same as ancient versions.
Therefore my vote would be for Chinese, which dates to 1500BC in its early forms. Ancient Chinese writing can still be at least partially read by average contemporary Chinese readers. Ancient Greek texts, which dates back to at least 9th Century BC, are mostly readable by contemporary Greeks.

That would be sign language and one of the oldest words of sign language is the middle finger still used frequently today.

You're welcome.

Aramaic?

I always thought it was Latin. I don't know.

pictographs

Probably some sort of sign language since most human communication is nonverbal.

The oldest language that is still spoken? Probably an African language, but I'm not sure.

That's probably true of the FIRST language as well. But we can't trace back nearly that far. We can't even trace back to the first European language, which we call--in theory--"Proto-Indo-European," the language from which all Germanic, Slavic, Armenian, Italic, Celtic, Hellenic, and Indo-Iranian languages derive (so it includes Sanskrit, for example).

I'd guess that Chinese, in one form or another, is a very old language. But perhaps not as old as some African languages. Semitic languages are old, too. I'm just grasping at straws now, though.