why we speak different languages around the world
2007-02-13 08:14:30 · 12 answers · asked by neiyah11 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Genesis 11 the tower of babel
2007-02-13 08:16:55 · answer #1 · answered by Kallan 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Genesis 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
The Hebrew word babel means "mixed" or "confusion." It was associated by the writer with the "babble" of sounds which was the last memory held by all who scattered from the city. The word "babble" is an example of onomatopoeia, a word which imitates an actual sound, and thus is essentially the same in all languages. The name Babel, therefore, does not really mean "gate of God," as later apologists claimed, but "confusion."
As the people scattered, each family gradually became a tribal unit, and each had to develop its own distinctive culture as best it could.
2007-02-13 16:21:54 · answer #2 · answered by Child of God 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 11
2007-02-13 16:21:18 · answer #3 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you can read the story of the Tower of Babel. About when these people decided that they could build a tower to heaven, and God didn't like that and he made them start speaking different languages, where they could not understand each other and they had to stop construction of the tower.
2007-02-13 16:22:38 · answer #4 · answered by Josephine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 11:9 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Good Study.
2007-02-13 16:21:29 · answer #5 · answered by deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 11:1--9
2007-02-13 16:17:14 · answer #6 · answered by wanda3s48 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The tower of Babel. Gen 11:6-.
2007-02-13 16:18:39 · answer #7 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The tower of Babel. Genesis 11.
Good luck!! :-)
2007-02-13 16:23:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gen 11
2007-02-13 16:17:19 · answer #9 · answered by Desperado 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nicholas - she didn't say she beileved in the story, just that she wanted to find it. Don't make assumptions... she could just be doing a research project on mythology of why we speak different languages.
2007-02-13 16:25:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋