Attested by those who are brought near (unto their Lord).

But that doesn't mean that all, or many, or most of today's attested languages couldn't descend perhaps from one that's much younger than that, like say 20,000 years, or something of that kind.

I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered immediately as the storm pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain.