All Languages Began at the Tower of Babel

Introduction

Have you ever wondered how many languages there and where they all come from?

Thesis:

I will disclose all the scientific evidence that shows chronologically how all languages and writing systems developed. I will further tie this research into even more amazing historical evidence that can only be found from one accurate trustworthy source. The Torah is on of the oldest compilation of written records available to man today. This effort will reveal how, why, and where all the languages and writing systems in the world began, as well as establish and verify the Holy Bible as an indispensable source of human knowledge, understanding and wisdom.

This small document has two short parts to it. Part one discusses the scientific discoveries, progression of languages, writing systems and alphabets. Part two elaborates on why the ancient scriptures of the Torah should be considered a reliable resource of information and reveals what is written in this ancient text about this subject.


There is substantial scientific evidence to support the fact that all human languages, writing systems and alphabets emerged simultaneously all around the world, from Europe to Africa and Asia to the Mayan Region, as well as further evidence that clearly discloses the precise details of their origination.




After intro:

Part 1:

First, let’s take a look at the scientific evidence that suggests all the languages and writing systems probably do have one common source by showing and discussing the natural progression of language and writing development.

The oldest writing systems did not use alphabets, but rather simple markings and pictures that represented the objects and ideas of reference.

There are four major writing systems, methods of inscription, that broadly fall into these categories: logographic, syllabic, alphabetic and featural.


Because man uses sounds from his mouth to communicate as well as pictures, a writing system that incorporated both pictures and sounds first emerged. This was a logogram system of writing. So figuratively speaking, a triangle could have meant a tree and a square could have meant a house. There was no alphabet yet.

This naturally developed into a Syllabic system that combined consonant sounds with vowel sounds. So a symbol like “ > ” could have the sound as our modern “ M ” like when a child tries to say, “ Mama.” These symbols were eventually use to represent the first sound of an entire word. So this same symbol “ > ” would be used to represent every word that started with the “ M ” sound, such as Man, Mountain, etc.. But there was still no alphabet at this time yet.

This use of dedicated symbols for specific sounds is what lead to more advance alphabetic system. There are the Abjads and the Abugidas kinds of alphabets. One uses the vowel sound and the other doesn’t. However, writing systems have been around much longer than the alphabetic itself.


They thought for a long time the earliest writings were from 3000 BC in the Mesopotamia. But newer discoveries reveals that writing was taking place much earlier than that.

Some of the oldest know objects with inscriptions on them, excluding primitive caveman art, are the Dispilio Tablet of Europe and a tortoise shell found in China. Dating back into the 6th millennium BC.

Some of the oldest noticeable writings were on tokens used to keep records of ones property, such as land and cattle, as well as a methods accounting for financial purposes, found in the Mesopotamia region during the time of the Sumerians, 4100-3800 BD. Also there were primitive writings found in Turkmenistan, Asia around 4000 BC. Also, Pakistan and India 3400-3500 BC. Mexico and Mesopotamia were writing around 3000 BC

It was during this time that the first writing systems were beginning to be developed. There seems to be a simultaneous effort in various parts all around the world concentrated to establish a functioning writing system between 4100 and 3000 BC. During this time languages and writing systems really exponentially proliferated out of necessity for trade and newly forming economies.

When we take into account the timing of the story of the Tower of Babel dating around 4000 BC recorded in the Torah, these discoveries correspond perfectly. I will discuss this more later.

The inscriptions and sign of the Sumerians were adopted by the Semitic people of the Mesopotamia 3000 BC. This corresponds to the oldest hieroglyphics dating to 3200 BC, where they discovered a full alphabet.

Who had the first alphabet is still unclear to me. I believe they were really developed around the same times out of desperation and necessity. There was an alphabet found with the hieroglyphics in Egypt around 3200 BC. However, the oldest writing and alphabetic system was used by the Semitic people of the Mesopotamia around 3000 BC.






The oldest writing systems with an alphabet seems to be the Proto-Sinaitic scripts from which we get the first written language to develop called Akkadian. The Proto-Sinaitic scripts split and developed into Canaanite, Middle Egypt and Sinai. Proto- Canaanite is where we get Phoenician and Hebrew Alphabets.

The Proto-Sinaitic script is the presumably alphabetic script of a number of Middle Bronze Age inscriptions in the Sinai, Middle Egypt, and Canaan. It is ancestral to the Semitic abjads as they developed by the Early Iron Age, and via Phoenician and Aramaic to nearly all modern alphabets.
Proto-Sinaitic (named for the inscription corpus at Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai) is the stage of the alphabet at the end of the Middle Bronze Age. During the Late Bronze Age, the script splits into the South Arabian and the Canaanite groups. The latter group is influenced by the Byblos syllabary, evolving into Phoenician proper by 1100 BCE. The term "Proto-Canaanite is extended to inscriptions of Canaan and Syria dating to the Late Bronze Age (13th to 12th century).

There have been two major discoveries of inscriptions identified as this script, the first in the winter of 1904-1905 in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie, dated to the mid 19th century BCE, and more recently in 1999 in Middle Egypt by John and Deborah Darnell, dated to the 18th century BC.

Before alphabetic system:
Europe and china 6000 BC
Agrarian society, Sumerians, 4100-3800 BD
Turkmenistan, Asia around 4000 BC
Pakistan and India 3400-3500 BC
Mexico and Mesopotamia 3000 BC


First written language with an alphabets:
Pakistan and India 3400-3500 BC (Primitive Alphabet)
Egypt Hieroglyphs 3200 BC (Primitive Alphabet)
India dating 2600-1900 BC
Proto- Sinaitic 1900 BC
Proto-Canaanite 1700 BC
Hebrew 1700 BC
China had writing system around 1500 BC
Crete had writing system 1650-1500 BC
Phoenicians 1300- 1150 BC
Greek 900-750 BC

Concerning the origin of all these various languages and writing systems, it is notably captivating and intellectually arresting to see their sudden simultaneous appearance all over the world. To many scientists this sharp and sudden emergence came byway of enormous pressure and necessity, clearly indicating a common proximity of the human condition relating to the imperative need for writing.

What could explain the reason behind this occurrence? Let us take a look deeper into the evidence that is available through another powerful yet often overlooked resource.






Part 2 the Torah, the oldest reliable ancient scriptures known to man.

Now I will reveal what is recorded in the ancient scriptures of the Holy Torah. The Torah is the oldest reliable piece of ancient scripture known to mankind. It has been preserved with amazingly intricate, delicately precise methods. No other book in history has been so worshiped as divine. It has been around since the formation of the first writing systems. If we are to trust any ancient writings at all, these ancients scriptures must also be seriously considered.

In the first book, Genesis, You will discover that in the Garden of Eden that man’s life was perfect. The trees and vegetation grew all the fruit and food they could ever need. Animals reproduced on their own and water flowed from a pure river. Everyone shared one mind, thoughts and peaceful spirit living in a paradise on earth.

Because there was perfect unity and utopia, I believe there was no need for written language. The word of God was spoken directly into the mind and spirit of man. Man used 100% of his brain capacity, so I believe telepathy through the spirit was the main method of perfect communication between man and God. There was no need for intricate financial record keeping, trade agreements, property settlements and legal documents. God spoke words to Adam and through faith he believe God and began to grow in knowledge and understanding.

But when man decided to distrust and disobey God, by listening to another source of knowledge, man suddenly fell from this perfect paradise. Difficulties and complications arose and there immediately became a need for a lower level of communication on matters that had never been of any concern before. Man now had to work hard and plant his own vegetation and cultivated the earth. He had to tend the animals and make sure the multiplied properly for his needs.



This corresponds perfectly with most common scientific assumptions. As the evidence shows, it is common knowledge and opinion of many scientists that the written language was necessitated by the increasing needs found in any society, economy, financial records, legal matters, trade agreement, property settlement, recording history, etc. Also, languages and writing systems seem to simultaneously appear in a relatively short time frame, as the scientific evidence certainly reveals.


In Genesis Chapter 11 we find the unequivocal explanation to this perplexing puzzle of how, why, and where all the languages and writing systems in the world began. After Noah’s ark God told man to go forth and spread out into the world and multiply. Man, again, decided to disobey God and build his own Tower and make himself out to be like God. God was displeased saying. “they all speak one language and nothing is impossible for them. Let us go and confuse their language.” That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.





Mankind had suddenly become primitive in every way. It was imperative to create and devise some type of communications with one another, even for the most basic of needs; food, shelter and clothing. This is why we see a progression in the writings systems that start with simple pictures, that develop into a more syllabic and consonant sounding system made with simple grunts and blurts, which eventually lead to more complicated alphabetic systems. There are now more than 6000 distinct dialect in the world.


I hope this has been piercing and mind opening to those who have never considered before how very uniquely practical and vitally important the ancient scriptures of the Bible are.

In conclusion, if you follow and believe the scientific evidence, it doesn’t take very much effort of faith to realized the superb unmatched quality of understanding to be gained by studying the Bible.

If we ignored the account recorded in genesis Chapter 11 we would never fully come to know the origin of all languages and writing systems. We will be left in the dark completely ignorant to the truth. If we consider the ancient text we will grow in knowledge and wisdom because it reveals exactly how, why, and where all the languages and writing systems in the world began, which is amazingly supported by the evidence. If you have never considered the Bible as a trustworthy reliable source of information before maybe it is time you did.