Peat moss soil amendment, made of partly decayed, dried sphagnum moss. Decayed, dried sphagnum moss has the name of peat or peat moss. This is used as a soil conditioner which increases the soil's capacity to hold water and nutrients by increasing capillary forces and cation exchange capacity.hese peat accumulations then provide habitat for a wide array of peatland plants, including sedges and ericaceous shrubs, as well as orchids and carnivorous plants. Sphagnum and the peat formed from it do not decay readily because of the phenolic compounds embedded in the moss's cell walls.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: If you are asking the oldest known language then the Sumerian or possibly Egyptian. If you are asking for the oldest still SPOKEN language then that is hard to say. As you have pointed out, most languages are evolving. Many languages (such as English) from 500 years ago could not be recognized as the same language today.
The Sumerian language is one of the earliest known written languages. The proto-literate period of Sumerian writing spans c. 3,300 to 3,000 BC. In this period, records are purely logographic, with no linguistic or phonological content.The oldest document of the proto-literate period is the Kish tablet.rchaic Sumerian is the earliest stage of inscriptions with linguistic content, beginning with the Jemdet Nasr (Uruk III) period from about the 31st to 30th centuries BC. It succeeds the proto-literate period, which spans roughly the 35th to 30th centuries.