How old is the Chinese language?

It's very hard to give a 'scientifically correct' answer to this question because there are still disputes over what constitutes the Chinese written language. But I will go ahead and say that it is probably at least 6000 years old. read more

In historical linguistics, the history of the Chinese language includes the various changes over time of the Chinese language in its various incarnations. Chinese is part of the Sino-Tibetan language family, a group of languages that all descend from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. read more

Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the late Shang dynasty. read more

Chinese language History goes back to thousands of years, this millinery culture developed a system of symbols to communicated one with each other; this section contains more information about this topic. read more