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attested language wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 see also 2 references toggle the table of contents attested language 8 languages العربية español فارسی bahasa indonesia kurdî bahasa melayu nederlands svenska edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia linguistic varieties with evidence of having existed the first attested sentence was in egyptian hieroglyphics 1 in linguistics attested languages are languages living or dead that have been documented and for which the evidence attestation has survived to the present day evidence may be recordings transcriptions literature or inscriptions in contrast unattested languages may be names of purported languages for which no direct evidence exists languages for which all evidence has been lost or hypothetical proto languages proposed in linguistic reconstruction 2 within an attested language particular word forms directly known to have been used because they appear in the literature inscriptions or documented speech are called attested forms they contrast with unattested forms which are reconstructions hypothesised to have been used based on indirect evidence such as etymological patterns in linguistic texts unattested forms are commonly marked with a preceding asterisk 3 see also edit historical linguistics list of languages by first written accounts spurious languages references edit allen james p 2013 the ancient egyptian language an historical study 1 ed cambridge university press isbn 978 1 107 03246 0 baxter william hubbard 1992 a handbook of old chinese phonology walter de gruyter p 24 isbn 9783110123241 fortson benjamin w iv 2011 09 07 indo european language and culture an introduction john wiley sons isbn 9781444359688 this article about historical linguistics is a stub you can help wikipedia by adding missing information v t e retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title attested_language oldid 1370284370 categories historical linguistics unattested languages historical linguistics stubs hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata all stub articles this page was last edited on 20 august 2026 at 05 49 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non profit organization privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia legal safety contacts code of conduct developers statistics cookie statement mobile view search search toggle the table of contents attested language 8 languages add topic