What languages "born" in the Bible's Tower of Babel, if any?

Question

What is the origin and separation of different tongues;eg Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan,Galician and others in the Iberian Peninsular?

Answer 1

Sir Henry Rawlinson, Oriental language scholar, observed:
“If we were to be thus guided by the mere intersection of linguistic paths, and independently of all reference to the scriptural record, we should still be led to fix on the plains of Shinar, as the focus from which the various lines had radiated.”—The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britian and Ireland, London, 1855, Vol. 15, p. 232.

The comparative study of languages, generally classifies languages into distinct “families.”
The “parent” language of each major family usually has not been identified; much less is there any evidence pointing to any one “parent” language as the source of all the thousands of tongues now spoken

Answer 2

It would be nice if it were true; it would mean there wouldn't be pictoglyphs in the southwestern United States whose meanings no one alive will ever know. Of course, it would also mean the "Wind Talkers" of WWII wouldn't have a job, since the Japanese would have been able to use simple etymology to translate the Navajo language.

In reality, though, Japanese and Navajo have absolutely nothing in common, and the Wind Talkers were able to pass messages that the Japanese couldn't decipher, quickly. Since there are individual languages that history has shown not to share a common source, the creation of languages in the Biblical Tower of Babel incident can be shown to be false.

In addition, no binary, assembly, or high level computer languages existed over a hundred years ago; it's impossible for C++, for instance, to have been created in the Babel incident, as there, simply put, were no tribes of humans that secretly spoke only in C++ or Pascal (somehow) for two thousand years. Not to mention processor and emulation languages used only by interpreter programs, that are literally impossible for human beings to speak and use meaningfully, and made-up languages like Klingon, or those of the Lovecraftian aliens that are, by design of the author, impossible for human tongues to speak and human minds to fathom.

Of course, if someone can find me a verse from the King James version of the bible written in executable python, I will be forced to change my mind.

Answer 3

I'm just paraphrasing a wikipedia article, but it seems that there's an "Iberian language" that is believed to be a language isolate (a language that doesn't have any ties to other languages, like Sumerian). It was eventually replaced by Latin, which lead to the formation of the "Romance languages", the category in which all of your languages belong.

Very cool!

Answer 4

None. The Tower of Babel is just christian people's excuse for everyone having different languages. They don't want to admit that people might be smart enough to come up with a lexicon on their own. It must have been the will of some guy in the sky.

Answer 5

Third answerer, the bible does not say that.
Genesis does talk about God confusing their speech during the building of the tower of Babel, but it does not tell us how many actual languages came from that particular incident.

I believe after that incident, language continued to evolve and change and even more languages evolved from the incident.

Answer 6

Many languages were formed after the tower of Babel, like English. English comes from a mix of languages. My guess is that the major languages came out of babel and men adapted them to their tribes and culture until you've got today's languages... which are still changing.

Answer 7

all languages were born at the tower of babel the language before was biblical Hebrew but there were only 70 languages then and all the hundreds we have know come from those 70 of the tower of babel

Answer 8

Chinese was one. That is such a difficult language to understand and write. About halfway down this article it talks of it.

Answer 9

The separation was due to the fact that THE GAWD saw how fancy and powerful man's magiks had become and didn't like it, so he used his even fancier, sexier and more powerful magiks to make us speak different languages so we couldn't be fancy like THE GAWD!

Makes perfect sense, huh?

Answer 10

I thought god killed all the people who built that tower, I don't blame those dumb villagers who build towers to climb the sky to find god.. because even today there are dumb religious fools pointing to sky and praying ...