Egyptian is the oldest written language. In its final stage (Coptic) Egyptian adopted a modified Greek alphabet. Greek is the oldest written language still i

Egyptian is the oldest written language. In its final stage (Coptic) Egyptian adopted a modified Greek alphabet. Greek is the oldest written language still in use today. It was originally written in a syllabary (Linear B) but, 3000 years ago, adopted the Phoenician abjad, adding vowels. Like modern Chinese languages, Ancient Greek had word tones, indicated by accents. Chinese is the oldest script still in use today in a relatively unmodified form. One Sinitic language (Dungan), which is to a large extent mutually intelligible with Mandarin, is written entirely in the Cyrillic alphabet.