The writing system, known as cuneiform, involved pressing symbols into clay tablets using a stylus. Although people stopped speaking Sumerian around 2000 BCE, it continued to be used for religious ...

1. Sumerian: The first written voice, First recoreded around 3100 BCE in Mescopotamia {modern-day Iraq}. Sumerian holds the title of being the first known written language.

The oldest current known Chinese writing has been found on animal bones _ known as oracle bones _ dating to 3,600 years ago during the Shang dynasty.

Il-Kantilena - the oldest known literary text in Maltese - has been officially inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, Minister for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government ...