Ancient language refers to a way of speaking or writing that was used a really long time ago. Think about when you play in your grandparents’ attic and find really old books or something your great grandparents wrote a long time ago. The language in those books or writings are ancient language.
Have you ever tried to read a story that was written many years ago and it was hard to understand some of the words? That’s because the language might be different than the way we talk now.
Different ancient languages can be found all over the world. For example, in Egypt, the ancient language was hieroglyphs, which is a type of writing that used pictures instead of words. In Latin America, there is an ancient language called Mayan, which was written using symbols like hieroglyphs as well.
Learning about ancient language can help us understand the way people in the past lived and communicated. It’s like you’re going back in time and learning about how people expressed themselves then.