Did pre-Neolithic age homo sapiens speak any language that is still...

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...spoken to this day? What is the world's oldest living language? Given that languages evolve, how likely is it that anyone on Earth today would be able to communicate in fluid speech with any of the homo sapiens of the Stone Ages, if we could travel back in time to interact with them?
 
Latin is the oldest. The oldest language SPOKEN that is. Hieroglyphs is the earliest form of communication on earth.
 
Extremely unlikely. We don't really know what languages were like before writing, and people were likely speaking for tens of thousands of years before the first written languages, which start appearing around 3,000 B.C. The Sumerian Language, Cuneiform, is the first known, written language and nobody can speak it fluently, you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who can read it.
 
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