Ancient language may refer to:
- Any language attested from ancient times, see list of languages by first written accounts, historical linguistics
- Languages of classical antiquity, see Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Kannada, Tamil, Chinese, Latin, Arabic.
- Other classical languages
- Any extinct language
- A fictional language in the Inheritance cycle
- Language of the race Ancients in the Stargate fictional universe
Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or language:
“Only the sound remains,
the distant thump of the good elephants,
the voice of the ancient lions
and how the bells
trembled for the flying man.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“This is of the loon—I do not mean its laugh, but its looning,—is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear,—hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head. I have heard a sound exactly like it when breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)