Albanian is depicted as the oldest language in Europe.

This book is the second edition of the “Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged,” published in 1956 by the World Publishing Company in Cleveland and New York. It is based on the work of Noah Webster but was revised by Jean L. McKechnie and a team of editors.
The inside cover features a graphical representation of the Indo-European family tree of languages. It illustrates how various language families are interconnected, starting from the Indo-European root.
According to this illustration, Albanian is depicted as the oldest language in Europe.
It is presented as an independent branch within the Indo-European language family, indicating that it has no direct connection to other modern European languages. This suggests that Albanian is a unique and ancient language, possibly directly descended from the earliest Indo-European origins, maintaining its identity over thousands of years.