And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there..... (and you know what happened next...) Genesis 11:2
"Contrary to what one sometimes reads in commentaries on
Genesis, these disparate languages were not a natural development from a single original over time.
When we study ancient languages and their geographical distribution, the evidence is instead consistent with what Genesis describes: a sudden, supernatural act of God which created a whole suite of unrelated but highly complex languages.
The result was the array of languages in the Near East, as cited above, which all appear at the same time—the second half of the third millennium B.C."
CMI
"Contrary to what one sometimes reads in commentaries on
When we study ancient languages and their geographical distribution, the evidence is instead consistent with what Genesis describes: a sudden, supernatural act of God which created a whole suite of unrelated but highly complex languages.
The result was the array of languages in the Near East, as cited above, which all appear at the same time—the second half of the third millennium B.C."
CMI