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The human Proto-language spoken prior to the event was assumed to have split into seventy or seventy-two dialects, depending on tradition. This is in apparent contradiction to Genesis 10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. suggesting that even before Babel, human languages were separated, at least among the descendents of Japheth . During the Middle-Ages, the Hebrew Language was widely considered the language used by God to address Adam in Paradise , and by Adam as Nomothete (the Adamic Language ), especially by Christian scholastics. Dante in the '' Divina Commedia '' implies however that the language of Paradise was different from later Hebrew by saying that Adam addressed God as ''I'' rather than '' El ''. The argument of Genesis 10:5 played a certain role at the time preceding the discovery of the Indo-European Language Family , originally considered the "Japhetite" languages by some authors. During the Renaissance, Hebrew had lost its status as the original language of Paradise, and was considered just one of the seventy languages derived from the confusion of tongue. Priority was now claimed for the alleged Japhetite languages, which were never corrupted because their speakers had not participated in the construction of the Tower of Babel. Among the candidates for a living descendent of the Adamite language were Gaelic (see '' Auraicept Na N-Éces ''), Tuscan ( Giovann Battista Gelli , 1542 , Piero Francesco Giambullari , 1564 ), Flemish ( Goropius Becanus , 1569 , Abraham Mylius , 1612 ), Swedish ( Andreas Kempe , 1688 , Olaus Rudbeck , 1675 ) and German ( Georg Philipp Haurdörffer , 1641 , Schottel , 1641 ). REFERENCES
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