ancient language
language originated in times that may be referred to as ancient
Church Slavonic
language of the Slavic Orthodox liturgy
Elamite
ancient language in Mesopotamia
Ancient Macedonian
ancient Greek language spoken in Macedonia, northern ancient Greece
Ligurian
extinct ancient language, spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by the Ligures, in what is now north-western Italy and south-eastern France (for the Romance language use Q36106)
Umbrian
extinct Italic language of central Italy
Phoenician
ancient Semitic language of the Mediterranean
Classic Maya
oldest attested Mayan language family member
Middle Egyptian
language written from 2000-1300 BC, during the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period
Bactrian
extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia
Harappan
unknown language or languages of the Harappan civilization
Old Tamil
language
Galatian
extinct celtic language from Asia Minor
Archaic Egyptian
extinct language spoken from 32th to 27th centuries BCE during the Early Dynastic Period
Akkadian
extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
Lycian
language
Jie
extinct language
Gothic
extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
Hurrian
language
Etruscan
ancient Mediterranean language
Raetic
language spoken in Rhaetia in pre-Roman and Roman times, documented by short inscriptions from Northern Italy, Southern Germany, Eastern Switzerland, Slovenia and Western Austria in 2 variants of the Etruscan alphabet
Pali
Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent
Venetic
language
Egyptian
extinct language spoken in ancient Egypt
Anatolian
language family
Volscian
language
Ancient North Arabian
language
Late Egyptian
language
Tocharian A
extinct Indo-European language
Primitive Irish
pre-6th century Goidelic Celtic language of Ireland and Britain
Sanskrit
ancient Indo-Aryan language of South Asia
Hunnic
language spoken by Huns
Lydian
language
Messapian
extinct Indo-European language
Pisidian
language
Scythian
group of Eastern Iranian languages
Iberian
the language of an indigenous pre-Migration Period people identified by Greco-Roman sources, living in the eastern/southeastern Iberian Peninsula between the 7th and 1st century BCE; became extinct by 2nd century CE
Sabaean
Old South Arabian language spoken in Yemen
Linear A
undeciphered writing system from Crete
Carian
language of the Luwian subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family
Ugaritic
extinct Northwest Semitic language
Old Javanese
oldest phase of the Javanese language spoken in areas in what is now the eastern part of Central Java and the whole of East Java
Sogdian
extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia
Old Egyptian
extinct language spoken approximately from the 27th to the 21 centuries BC during the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period
Mycenaean Greek
most ancient attested form of the Greek language from the 16th to 12th centuries BC
Vestinian
ancient Italic language
Hieroglyphic Luwian
language
Latin
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
Parthian
language
Avestan
Eastern Iranian language used in Zoroastrian scripture