2006-09-17 03:00:12 · 23 answers · asked by gasp 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The first people who had language probably spoke a language from the Afo-Asiatic group. Hebrew comes along much later, as a branch from the Ugaritic langauge -- Hebrew is the language spoken at the time the Bible stories were WRITTEN, but the stories themselves (Adam, Eve, Noah, etc. date from the dawn of humanity. It is not known what these early people spoke.
Regarding the Afro-Asiatic language family:
"This language family is generally thought by linguists to have originated somewhere in northeastern Africa, and began to diverge around the 8th millennium BCE, although there is much debate about the exact date and place. One branch of this family, Semitic, eventually reached the Middle East; it gradually differentiated into a variety of related languages.
By the end of the 3rd millennium BCE the ancestral Aramaic, Ugaritic and Canaanite languages were spoken in the Levant alongside the influential dialects of Ebla and Akkad. As the Hebrew founders from northern Haran filtered south into and came under the influence of the Levant, like many immigrants into Canaan including the Philistines, they adopted Canaanite dialects.
The common ancestor of Hebrew and Phoenician is called Canaanite, and was the first to use a Semitic alphabet distinct from Egyptian.
In its widest sense, Classical Hebrew means the spoken language of the ancient land of Israel flourishing between the 10th century BCE and the turn of the 4th century CE. [1] It comprises several evolving and overlapping dialects
2006-09-17 04:21:25 · answer #1 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve spoke IBO. This language is spoken today by an ethnic group in the south-eastern part of Nigeria.
2006-09-17 10:11:16 · answer #2 · answered by G.I noel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scientific research indicates that early homo sapience humans, who lived in Africa, and who were the actual Adam and Eve, very likely spoke a language that sounded like the clicking languages of some African tribes (these languages include clicking sounds that disappeared from later African tongues
2006-09-17 10:11:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
English.
2006-09-17 10:02:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sign language!!
2006-09-17 10:06:26 · answer #5 · answered by singirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they could have spoken anything. at bable during the reign of nimrod, the language of the people was confused to stop them building a tower to the heavens in defiance of God. then the different groups of langauges went their separate ways.
2006-09-17 13:36:09 · answer #6 · answered by iamalsotim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, we could say that God spoke a Semitic language. Maybe Hebrew or Arabic because all of the Prophets are from the Semitic people of the Hebrews and Arabs - Jethro (PBUH) and Muhammad (PBUH). Well as a Muslim, I could say God knows best.
2006-09-17 12:32:22 · answer #7 · answered by Suliman 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Arabic, naturally.
j/k
Actually, how would anybody know? The languages were confused so that people would have to make effort to know and understand each other. Do you make that effort to understand other nationalities and cultures?
2006-09-17 10:08:31 · answer #8 · answered by Smiley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They spoke a language called lykish, the very first language of the humanity.. very few people know it today, among me
j/k
2006-09-17 10:05:14 · answer #9 · answered by viziata 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A better question would be how did two people supply sufficient genetic diversity to breed a viable race.
2006-09-17 10:07:18 · answer #10 · answered by Rick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋