> I am talking about sophistication in language,not just script. Most of the early Egyptian and Sumer writings are very simple accountings, mostly numbers. Very

> I am talking about sophistication in language,not just script. Most of the early Egyptian and Sumer writings are very simple accountings, mostly numbers. Very little to do with what we consider writing today. I guess sophistication is subjective, but a lot of Chinese writing was just record keeping too, and there was literature in Egypt and Sumer, e.g. the Epic of Gilgamesh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_literature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_literature > latin is called an Indo-European language becomes it comes from India. Not just the language, but the race. The most popular theory is that the Proto-Indo-European language had its origins in Eastern Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_origins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_origins