who can answer these questions about nationalities and languages?

Question

why do we have different nationalities? how did it start? what do u think are the nationalities of adam and eve? and from genesis 11:1-9, The Tower of Babel Story,God confused their language, causing them to speak different languages so they would not understand each other. what came first, the nationality or the different languages that led us into different nationalities?

Answer 1

It is difficult to look at evolution of languages from the Biblical point of view... Bible has not yet been able to relate to the evolution of humans.. far ahead is the evolution of languages..

I don't mean to offend your religious beliefs here, but in my opinion all religious texts are something written to explain the inexplicable, as relevent to the society when it was written.. The bible (or for that matter any other religious scripture we know of) as we know it, was written when science had not evolved much, and the social outlook was very different... We can't completely relate all that the bible says to today's society and knowledge level of science... What may have been inexplicable a hundred years ago, may be common place knowledge now..

Language, as a concept started (if you consider the evolution theory) when primiveal humans started living together in groups.. groups offered more security from predators, and hunting toghether gave more food.. But living together and hunting together also needs communication between each other..

It started off with sign language, and went on to grunts, and slowly, the complexities of a spoken language developed.. Why different sets of people developed different languages depends to some extent on the environment, but mostly it is because when two different people are conjuring something totally abstract, there is a very very low possiblity that they will come up with the same thing... So different groups of people across the world developed different languages.. (so in a way, nationalities led to languages..)

And language keeps evolving, growing and mutating to communicate the new ideas and innovations that people keep coming up with.. Was there a word called "electricity" 500 years back??? No.. but everyone who speaks english understands its meaning now... Also as people got more and more dependant on each other, the communication demanded more and more complexity.. Along with language, society grows a culture, and ethics.. These also need the language to evolve in order to communicate such concepts...

Further, each geographical location has its own uniqueness, which gives rise to certain expressions.. proverbs relevant to that location and culture slowly turn into words over time..

So even though two groups of people spoke the same language once upon a time, if they stay separated for long enough, they wouldn't be able to understand each other..

Also when two groups whose languages had different origins are forced to live and interact together, the two languages merge and produce a common language...

So far, evolution of languages depended mainly on geographical separation, and hence nationality.. But now, with today's technology, inter-communication is not limited by geographical seperation.. So what trends we saw in the evolution of language so far, may not be the same for the future...

Many infact predict the evolution of one common language for the whole earth, because of the ease with which one person can communicate with another person across continents..

Answer 2

The history of people and languages can be found in any book regarding ancient civilizations/anthropology. It is too long an answer for me to type here. Unfortunately you are going to start out confused because you are a Christian and believe that the Christian God confused the languages. That did not happen, the Bible is myth just like the Greek gods, etc. There is plenty of proof and therefore information regarding how different languages and ethnicities developed but whatever is in the Bible is in the Bible and that is it. There is absolutely no proof to substantiate its claims.
I can, however, kind of answer your question regarding which came first. I can tell you that humans developed before language.

Answer 3

A lot of these questions are answered in "Guns, Germs and Steel" a book by Jared Diamond.

However, he doesn't look at it from a Biblical viewpoint. He looks at it from an evolutionary viewpoint.

In short, though, languages came way before nationalities.

Also, the tower of Babel was in Babylon, now Iraq.

Answer 4

Not for me, I'm now not Biracial however I can realise why a Biracial individual would consider that method. They are stuck among 2 races to make a decision who/what aspect they prefer to be or what they're socially. It must be tough at the 2 moms and dads additionally. The one drop legislation began all of it. The moms and dads do not know what to inform their youngster with out offending one aspect or the opposite. Biracial is what they're regardless of in their epidermis colour. One love!

Answer 5

I'd say, languages definetely came first.

No one yet agrees on when language was first used by humans (or their ancestors). Estimates range from about two million (2,000,000) years ago, during the time of Homo habilis, to as recently as forty thousand (40,000) years ago, during the time of Cro-Magnon man.

Asia is the largest of the continents, having a geographic area of about 17,000,000 square miles, or about one-third of the whole of the dry land. It is also the oldest known portion of the globe, the earliest known seat of civilization, and, in all probability, the cradle of the human race, although scholars differ as to whether the primitive home of mankind should be located in South-western Asia, and more particularly in the Tigris-Euphrates valley, or rather in Central Asia, and more particularly in the Indo-Iranian plateau.

The conception of Europe as a distinct division of the earth, separate from Asia and Africa, had its origin in ancient times.

The name Africa, which is of Phoenician origin, was at first given by the Romans to the territory about the city of Carthage. It gradually came to be applied to the whole Libyan territory occupied by the Romans, and it was understood in this sense, as late as the eleventh century.



This book might help you:

The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Abyss-Time-History-Nations/dp/0226728358

Answer 6

From a different perspective, when humans migrated from Africa accross the globe in groups and some settled and some kept walking and eventually languages developed and grew as did populations.

Answer 7

I think both came together but it'll be always changes in languages

Answer 8

National Geographic discovery says that first "Adam" and "Eve" came from Africa.

Answer 9

do not search responses in the bible for these kind of questions.

in the bible everything is symbolic, to transmit a message and values, not the beginning of nationalities and language.

i suggest you to study history, maybe you will get more and better answers.