Feb 27, 2025
just saw someone saying that the oldest language anyone could POSSIBLY name is sumerian. HELLO????? like from 5000 years ago??? five thousand??? the oldest one???
#look i'm not saying that five thousand years isn't a long time#but like. if we're talking grand scale it's not. that long#i guess every aboriginal language (including the theorised common ancestor of the 250+ that existed at the time of colonisation which would#have been spoken about 12000 years ago) can go fuck themselves. like#FIVE THOUSAND YEARS#long. but the OLDEST????????????#why would we presume that to be the case???#idk. i feel insane now. what's the largest chronological figure people are regularly exposed to in other places#bc here you grow up with common knowledge that aboriginal people have lived on the land for upwards of 65000 years#and some stuff I've seen recently is making me wonder if that messes a bit with the way one scales these things#or (probable answer) everyone else on the internet is simply wrong and bad all the time.
