Editing Classical language (section)

===Middle Ages===
* [[Geʽez]], 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]], the 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 AD 850.<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 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
* [[Old French]], language of [[chivalric romance]], 8th to 14th centuries
* [[Old Georgian]], language of Georgia, 5th to 11th centuries
* [[Old East Slavic]], language of the [[Kievan Rus']], 9th to 13th centuries
* [[New Persian#Classical Persian|New Persian]], language of classical [[Persian literature]], 9th to present
* [[Old Nubian]], language of [[Nubia]], 9th or 10th to 15th centuries
* [[Assamese language#Magadhan and Gauda-Kamarupa stages|Old Assamese]], the earliest form of [[Assamese language]], attested  between 7th to 12th century CE and emerged during the [[Kamarupa kingdom]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2024-10-24|title=ASSAMESE (অসমীয়া)–THE HISTORY|url=https://protelostudios.com/assamese/|access-date=2024-10-23 | website=www.protelostudios.com|language=en |quote=The Indo-Aryan language in Kamarupa had differentiated by the 7th-century, before it did in Bengal or Orissa.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |date=2025-02-09 |title=Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections |isbn=978-81-260-0365-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYLpvaKJIMEC&pg=PA3 |language=en |quote=To find out the written specimens of the Assamese literature, we are to go back to the period of the songs and aphorisms composed by the Buddhist Siddhacharyas between the 8th and the 12th centuries A.D. |author1=Ayyappappanikkar |publisher=Sahitya Akademi }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-31 |title=Assamese language {{!}} Assamese Dialects, Brahmaputra Valley & Eastern India {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Assamese-language |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |quote=Assamese literary tradition dates to the 13th century. Prose texts, notably buranjis (historical works), began to appear in the 16th century.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2024-08-31 |title=Charyapads as the Oldest Written Specimen of Assamese Literature|url=https://www.neliti.com/publications/429892/charyapads-as-the-oldest-written-specimen-of-assamese-literature#:~:text=While%20dividing%20this%20era%2C%20Charyapad,written%20specimen%20of%20Assamese%20literature.|journal=International Journal of Health Sciences|doi=10.53730/ijhs.v6nS1.6513 |language=en |quote=Charyapads are considered as the first written specimen of Assamese literature. |last1=Deka |first1=Joy Jyoti |last2=Boro |first2=Akashi Tara |pages=7028–7034 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[Old Bengali]], the earliest forms of the [[Bengali Language]], emerged during the [[Kingdom of Gauda]], 7th to 12th centuries.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Das |editor1-first=Amitava |editor2-last=Sanyal |editor2-first=Rajat |editor3-last=Chakraborty |editor3-first=Rajib |title=Classical Bangla |date=2025 |publisher=[[Institute of Language Studies and Research]] (ILSR), Kolkata |location=[[Kolkata]] |isbn=9788198479358 |page=386 |quote=The beginning of literary expression in Bengali in the 7th century AD as Caryāpada relates that the language developed over a considerable period before it reached the present status of literary expression in the 7th century. The oral traditions-proverbs, riddles, folks, stories which are the staple of the Bengali culture germinated before the written literature and were handed down from generation to generation. .... Caryāpada, which was composed in the 7th century AD, is the earliest literary expression (discovered so far) in Bengali language. Its composition in the 7th century is proof enough of a thirteen hundred years of ancestry of Bengali language in the written form. .... According to French scholar Sylvain Levi, in 657 A.D. during the period of King Narendra Deb, Matsyendranath who is also known as Mīnanātha according to Näthagitikā, travelled to Nepal. He was the founder and propagator of Nathism and also happens to be the oldest writer in the Bengali language, as has been recognized by many.}}</ref>
* [[Old Javanese]], language of [[Javanese literature|Old Javanese]] literature, used primarily during [[Javanese people#Ancient Javanese kingdoms and empires|Hindu-Buddhist]] Javanese kingdom era from 10th to 15th centuries<ref name="H.Cresse">{{cite journal |last1=Cresse |first1=Helen |title=Old Javanese Studies: A Review of the Field |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |date=2001 |volume=1 |issue=157 |pages=3–33 |doi=10.1163/22134379-90003816 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43472268 |access-date=23 February 2020|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Ogloblin">{{cite book |last=Ogloblin |first=Alexander K. |year=2005 |chapter=Javanese |title=The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BAShwSYLbUYC&pg=PA590 |editor1=K. Alexander Adelaar |editor2=Nikolaus Himmelmann |location=London dan New York |publisher=Routledge |pages=590–624 |isbn=9780700712861 }}</ref>
* [[Old Church Slavonic]], language of the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] during its Golden Age, 10th century earliest manuscript is [[Freising manuscripts]]
* [[Classical Tibetan]], religious and literary language of Tibet, 10th century to present
* [[Classical Japanese]], language of [[Heian period]] literature, 10th to 12th centuries
* [[Middle Korean]], language of [[Goryeo]] and [[Joseon]], 10th to 16th centuries
* [[Old Occitan]], language of the [[troubadour]]s, 11th to 14th centuries
* [[Middle High German]], language of [[Middle High German literature|Medieval German literature]], 11th to 14th centuries
* [[Old Church Slavonic#Serbian recension|Old Serbian]], language of [[Serbia]] before its conquest by the [[Ottoman Empire]], 11th to 14th centuries
* [[Telugu language|Classical Telugu]]: the earliest available literary work is the Telugu Mahabharata, AD 1067.
* [[Malayalam|Classical Malayalam]]: the earliest extant prose work is the ''Ramacharitam'', 12th century.<ref name="charitam">K. Ramachandran Nair in Ayyappapanicker (1997), p.301</ref>
* [[Odia language|Classical Odia]], language of [[Odia literature]], 12th to 18th centuries
* [[Old Norse]], language of the [[Viking Age]], from the 12th century
* [[Middle Bulgarian]], language of the [[Second Bulgarian Empire]], 12th to 15th centuries
* [[Middle Low German]], language of the [[Hanseatic League]], 12th to 17th centuries
* [[Old Uyghur]], Turkic language spoken in [[Qocho]] from the 9th–14th centuries and in Gansu
* [[Sagas of Icelanders|Classical Icelandic]], the language of the [[Sagas of Icelanders|Icelandic sagas]], 13th century
* [[Old Catalan|Classical Catalan]], language of literature in the [[Crown of Aragon]], 13th to 14th centuries
* [[Mandinka language|Classical Manding]], language of the [[Mali Empire]], 13th to 16th centuries
* [[Ruthenian language|Old Ruthenian]], one language of the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], 13th to 16th centuries
* [[Old Anatolian Turkish]], 11th to 15th centuries
* [[Geʽez#13th to 14th centuries|Classical Ge'ez]], language of [[Ethiopian literature#Medieval literature (1200–1672)|Golden Age of Ge'ez literature]], 13th to 16th centuries
* [[Early Modern Irish#Classical Gaelic|Classical Irish or Classical Gaelic]], language of the 13th to 18th centuries Scottish and Irish Gaelic literature
* [[Wolof language|Classical Wolof]], language of the [[Jolof Empire|Wolof Empire]], 13th to 19th centuries
* [[Middle English]], language of [[The Canterbury Tales]], 14th to 15th centuries, with many divergent written dialects, but partially standardized on London speech
* [[Middle French]], language of the [[French Renaissance]], 14th to 17th centuries
* [[History of the Hungarian language#Old Hungarian (10th to 15th centuries)|Classical Hungarian]], language of [[Hungarian literature]], 14th to 15th centuries
* [[Songhay languages|Classical Songhai]], lingua franca of the [[Songhai Empire]], 14th to 16th centuries
* [[Early New High German]], language of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [[German Renaissance]], and the [[Reformation|Protestant Reformation]], 14th to 17th centuries
* [[History of the Malay language#Classical Malay|Classical Malay]], language of [[Maritime Southeast Asia]], 14th to 18th centuries
* [[Chagatai language|Chagatai]], classical Turkic language of Central Asia and the Volga, 14th to early 20th centuries
* [[Old Khmer|Angkorian Old Khmer]], language of the [[Khmer Empire]], from 14th century
* [[Rekhta]], poetic language of [[Delhi]] and the Northern/Central Indian subcontinent, 13th-18th century, became standardized as [[Urdu]] in the 19th century.