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The confusion of tongues (''confusio linguarum'') is the initial fragmentation of human languages described in the Bible after the collapse of the Tower Of Babel ( Genesis 11:1-9). It is implied that prior to the event, humanity spoke a single language, either identical to or derived from the " Adamic Language " spoken by Adam And Eve in Paradise. In the confusion of tongues, this language was split into seventy or seventy-two dialects, depending on tradition. This has sometimes been interpreted as being in contradiction to , Of these were the isles of the nations 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 descendants 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 ) by various Jewish, Christian, and even Muslim 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 ''. Preceding the acceptance of the (see Middle Ages ); Proto-Indo-European ( Anne Catherine Emmerich , 1790 ). REFERENCES
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