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===Middle Ages===

* [[Old Bengali]] (The earliest forms of the [[Bengali Language]] known as "Old Bengali" or "Proto-Bengali",emerged during the [[PalaKingdom Empireof Gauda]], 8th4th to 12th6th centuries)

* [[Geʽez|Ge'ez]] (language of the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]], the Garima Gospels are dated from the 5th century to the 10th century by various scholars)

* [[Classical Armenian]] (oldest attested form of [[Armenian language|Armenian]] from the 5th century and literary language until the 18th century)

* [[Classical Arabic]] (based on the language of the [[Quran|Qur'an]], 7th century to present; liturgical language of [[Islam]])

* [[Kannada#Old Kannada|Classical Kannada]] (court language of [[Rashtrakuta dynasty|Rashtrakuta empire]], earliest available literary work is the ''[[Kavirajamarga|Kavirājamārga]]'' of 850 AD)<ref name=BritannicaLit>''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2008. "Kannada literature" Quote: "''The earliest literary work is the ''Kavirājamārga'' (c. AD 850), a treatise on poetics based on a Sanskrit model.''"</ref>

* [[Old Bengali]] (The earliest forms of the [[Bengali Language]] known as "Old Bengali" or "Proto-Bengali",emerged during the [[Pala Empire]], 8th to 12th centuries)

* [[Old Saxon#Literature|Old Saxon]] (language of Saxon Christian literature, 9th to 12th centuries)

* [[Old English]] (language of ''[[Beowulf]]'' and the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' with many divergent written dialects, but partially standardized in [[West Saxon dialect|West Saxon]] form)