First Millennium BC
With the appearance of alphabetic writing in the Early Iron Age, the number of attested languages increases. With the emergence of the Brahmic family of scripts, languages of India are attested from after about 300 BC. The Cypro-Minoan and Cypriot syllabaries remain undeciphered.
- Phoenician - about 1000 BC
- Aramaic - c. 950 BC
- Hebrew - c. 950 BC: Gezer calendar
- Moabite - c. 840 BC: Mesha Stele
- Phrygian - c. 800 BC
- Ammonite - c. 800 BC: Amman Citadel Inscription
- Old North Arabian - c. 800 BC
- Old South Arabian - c. 800 BC
- Etruscan - c. 700 BC
- Umbrian - c. 600 BC
- North Picene - c. 600 BC
- Lepontic - c. 600 BC
- Tartessian - c. 600 BC
- Lydian - c. 600 BC
- Carian - c. 600 BC
- Thracian c. 6th century BC
- Venetic c. 6th century BC
- Old Persian - c. 500 BC: Behistun inscription
- Latin - c. 500 BC: Duenos Inscription
- South Picene - c. 500 BC
- Messapian - c. 500 BC
- Gaulish - c. 500 BC
- Mixe–Zoque - c. 500 BC: Isthmian script (disputed)
- Oscan - c. 400 BC
- Iberian - c. 400 BC
- Meroitic - c. 300 BC
- Faliscan - c. 300 BC
- Volscian - c. 275 BC
- Middle Indo-Aryan (Prakrit) - c. 260 BC: Edicts of Ashoka
- Tamil - 3rd century BC: cave inscriptions and potsherds in Tamil Nadu
- Galatian - c. 200 BC
- Pahlavi - c. 130-170 BC
- Celtiberian - c. 100 BC
Read more about this topic: List Of Languages By First Written Accounts
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