The earliest attested name is the Hittite Assuwa a region in central-western Anatolia which seems to be connected with the Mycenean Greek epithet a-si-wi-ja in Linear B inscriptions found at Pylos.

The earliest known texts in a Turkic language are the Orkhon inscriptions, of which the earliest dates from around 720 AD and the latest from 735 AD ( Miller 1971: 3 ).

Alemannic runic inscriptions such as those on the Pforzen buckle are among the earliest testimonies of Old High German.

One of the earliest evidence of Hindu influence in Southeast Asia were stone pillars which bear inscriptions in the Pallava script found in Kutai along the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan, dating to around the second half of the 300s AD.

The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

In the earliest inscriptions, the words are continuous.

He figures in the earliest extant cuneiform inscriptions throughout the region and was prominent from the third millennium down to Hellenistic times.

If cave art is ambiguous on this matter then cuneiform inscriptions which hold the earliest writings seem to have been initially for non-fiction.

The earliest extant usage of Prakrit is the corpus of inscriptions of Emperor Asoka.

The earliest attested form of writing in South India is inscriptions found in caves, associated with the Chalukya and Chera dynasties.

The earliest known inscriptions for Chinese star names were written on oracle bones and date to the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1600-c. 1050 BC ).

The earliest known Turkic inscriptions are the two monumental Orkhon inscriptions found in modern Mongolia.

The earliest attested terms referring to wine are the Mycenaean Greek me-tu-wo ne-wo (), meaning " the month of new wine " or " festival of the new wine ", and wo-no-wa-ti-si, meaning " wine garden ", written in Linear B inscriptions.

Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 suggested that, since the name Heruli itself is identified by many with the Anglo-Saxon eorlas (" nobles "), Old Saxon erlos (" men "), the singular of which ( erilaz ) frequently occurs in the earliest Northern inscriptions, that " Heruli " may have been a title of honor.

As distinguished by its unique language, this civilization endured from the time of the earliest Etruscan inscriptions ( ca.

The Old Mon script, which has been dated to the 6th century, with the earliest inscriptions found in Nakhon Pathom and Saraburi ( in Thailand ), is ancestral to the Burmese script and the Tai Tham script, a liturgical script used in Northern Thailand and Laos.

The earliest archeological remains of a synagogue building on the island of Delos in the Aegean indicate a late second-century or possibly mid-first century BCE date of construction, while earlier inscriptions and papyri have been discovered in Egypt, commencing with the third century BCE.

There are about eighty extant early Syriac inscriptions, dated to the first three centuries AD ( the earliest example of Syriac, rather than Imperial Aramaic, is in an inscription dated to AD 6, and the earliest parchment is a deed of sale dated to AD 243 ).

Archaic Sumerian is the earliest stage of inscriptions with linguistic content, beginning with the Jemdet Nasr ( Uruk III ) period from about the 31st to 30th centuries BC.

While a Phoenician origin for the Greek alphabet is certain, the earliest Greek inscriptions match Phoenician letter forms from the late 9th or 8th centuries BC -- and, in any case, the Phoenician alphabet properly speaking wasn't developed until around 1050 BC ( or after the Bronze Age collapse ).

Though the earliest inscriptions at the site date to ca.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

The Samaritan Targum, composed in the Samaritan dialect of Aramaic, is the earliest translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch.

The earliest such references seem to be in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Greek, and Aramaic Enochic literature, and in certain Ge ' ez manuscripts of 1 Enoch ( mss A – Q ) and Jubilees used by western scholars in modern editions of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

In support of this, he noted that Aramaic was the language of Jesus and the earliest Christians, because of the historical fact that, according to Lamsa, " Aramaic was the colloquial and literary language of Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, from the fourth century B. C. to the ninth century A. D ."

The most controversial is in the earliest of three Aramaic treaty inscriptions found at Al-Safirah 16 miles southeast of Aleppo.

Likewise advocates of the primacy of an Aramaic New Testament have coined a new meaning for the phrase " Greek primacy " ( earliest confirmed reference 2007 ) to describe the consensus scholarly view that the New Testament was originally written in Greek.

The earliest known systems involving neumes are of Aramaic origin and were used to notate inflections in the quasi-emmelic ( melodic ) recitation of the Christian holy scriptures.

The earliest church used Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the liturgy.

The earliest documented reference to the city by its Semitic name Tadmor, Tadmur or Tudmur ( which means " the town that repels " in Amorite and " the indomitable town " in Aramaic ) is recorded in Babylonian tablets found in Mari.

The earliest Mongolic language of which we have written evidence is known as Middle Mongol.

The earliest records in the Akkadian language date to the time of Sargon.

The earliest original writings in Coptic language were the letters by Saint Anthony.

Sapir's earliest writings had espoused views of the relation between thought and language stemming from the Humboldtian tradition he acquired through Franz Boas, which regarded language as the historical embodiment of volksgeist, or ethnic world view.

It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon – Khmer family, predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese.

Æthelberht ’ s law for Kent, the earliest written code in any Germanic language, instituted a complex system of fines.

Pronouns show distinctions in person ( 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ), number ( singular, dual, and plural in the ancient language ; singular and plural alone in later stages ), and gender ( masculine, feminine, and neuter ), and decline for case ( from six cases in the earliest forms attested to four in the modern language ).

The adjective derived from this noun, * þiudiskaz, " popular ", was later used with reference to the language of the people in contrast to the Latin language ( earliest recorded example 786 ).

It is the Germanic language with the earliest attestation but has no modern descendants.

The name giraffe has its earliest known origins in the Arabic word zarafa ( زرافة ), perhaps from some African language.

However, the earliest known recording of the name is from the Bible which was in existence before the Latin language was prominent.

It is generally agreed that " Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style ," so the earliest surviving components of this dynamic text are believed to be no older than the earliest external references we have to the epic, which may include an allusion in Panini's fourth century BCE grammar ( Ashtādhyāyī 4: 2: 56 ).

The U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs ( formerly the Veterans Administration ) was one of the earliest major adopters of the MUMPS language.

The earliest language written in Mesopotamia was Sumerian, an agglutinative language isolate.

The earliest odes in the English language, using the word in its strict form, were the Epithalamium and Prothalamium of Edmund Spenser.

The earliest recorded trace of a recapitulation theory is from the Egyptian Pharaoh Psamtik I ( 664 – 610 BCE ), who used it as an hypothesis on the origin of language.