What language did Adam speak?

According to tradition, the language was called "Adamic" and was an ancient version of Hebrew I think. No idea if there is any truth to that.

Whatever the actual language, I suspect it's lost to time and hasn't been spoken in thousands of years.

I believe Hebrew is the language spoken in Heaven and "given" by God to Adam and Eve. They didn't have to learn things like babies because they've never been babies. God created them mature and fully-developed, including speech.

Only God can tell you what language they spoke.

Why, 1611 King James English of course.

Carl Emerson said:

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

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God was his father, so he learned to speak from God. All of creation knew God's voice.

This is a good time to let your grandson know, that for many questions the answer is "No one knows." Though I kind of like Hebrew as an answer, that's what the early "chosen" people spoke.

Carl Emerson said:

Is there scriptural support for Hebrew?

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Tower of Babel says no. Even if they were speaking the same language as Adam after the flood, the language got confused.

Then during the exile, the pronunciation of the name of God was lost, so even Hebrew is not the original Hebrew.

Carl Emerson said:

Is there scriptural support for Hebrew?

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I think so based on Genealogies, like that of Noah etc.

You will always find the Semitic line as the line of the Chosen person etc. And naturally the line that leads to the Hebrews is the best of all.

FenderTL5 said:

Why, 1611 King James English of course.

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In Cockney.

i tend to think that the language spoken was heavenly language. God's language, where we speak without the need for words, see psalms 19:1-4, and when we do use words it are the Lord's.

So i think Adam and Eve spoke with their spirit as well as with their tongues. The language God taught them. He was their parent for whoever knows how long.

i think you can tell your grand son safely that they spoke heavenly language together.

FenderTL5 said:

Why, 1611 King James English of course.

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If it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me.

jacks said:

This is a good time to let your grandson know, that for many questions the answer is "No one knows." Though I kind of like Hebrew as an answer, that's what the early "chosen" people spoke.

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And there's no shame in "we don't know." There are a whole lot of doctrinal shenanigans that evolve from trying to answer questions that aren't answered by scripture.

Carl Emerson said:

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

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Out of the mouths of babes... come the hardest questions to answer sometimes... LOL

God bless them!!!

I have heard it was an ancient form of Hebrew, but ancient Hebrew developed from ancient forms of Mesopotamian Arabic tribal languages (I'm quite rusty here and going on memory only). I had a Chaldean Bible teacher who once said Avram (Abraham) spoke the language of his fellow Chaldeans...

I can only guess, but it seems to follow, it was actual spoken language and not empathic. But we are projecting backward the norms of today concluding this. Chuck Missler once quipped, we don't know how many dimensions Adam occupied or as some other teachers quipped, we don;t know that Adam couldn't fly or was clothed with light...

What we do have is the Biblical record to go on. Nothing more or less. When the Bible describes their attire / lack thereof, or that they spoke using words... that's all we can adduce /deduce... and the language Moses wrote Genesis in was Hebrew (from his inspiration by the Holy Spirit 2 Peter 1:21).

Carl Emerson said:

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

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Verbal. Adam had a spirit but it was not active, so to speak. He needed to eat from the Tree of Life to be completed spiritually. Instead, He chose to be "completed" by knowledge of good and evil, which is the realm of the soul. Eve was tempted by what she saw, by an appeal to her physical body and by the prospect of being like God - exactly what brought Satan down in the first place. (See 1 John 2:16 also)

We don't know the common language is the short answer. God scattered the people as they were building the tower of Babel. That initiated the many languages that we have to endure today. I'm English. There are counties in England where the local dialect is almost incomprehensible to those in the next county.

Language is one of the arguments against evolution. It is not an inherent ability, as anyone with a deaf child knows. They don't learn to speak until and unless they are able to hear. So how did humanity go from unintelligible grunts (you know, like teenagers talking to parents) to the amazing power of speech that we have now?

Sounds of music heard in the Garden of Eden (Isaiah 51:3).
Voice and instruments for worship (Lev. 23:23-24; Psalm 100:2).
Music: A ‘Cultural Universal’ in Archaeology and the Bible

Language: A ‘Cultural Universal’ in Archaeology and the Bible
Language: A ‘Cultural Universal’ in Archaeology and the Bible

Just how accurate is the biblical depiction of the development of language?

The 'Sumerian Problem'—Evidence of the Confusion of Languages?

Sumerian is what is known as a “language isolate”
Sumerian Language

Carl Emerson said:

Here's a question...

Adam was made from the dust - no ancestors to teach him how to speak - created as a fully grown individual.

He communicated with God and Eve. Eve communicated with the Serpent.

What was the common language?

Was it voice communication or direct spirit to spirit communication?

My 5 year old Grandson asked... Can you answer?

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I think it can only be looked at within a Hebrew vacuum. Since Moses comes in 2500 years after creation and he is credited with writing down all this certainly the language would have evolved since Adam first spoke it (it would have evolved in Adam's lifetime too since he lived 930 years). Adam is said to give Eve her name which is a Hebrew word "Chavvah" meaning "life" or "life-giver" so either Adam spoke it or it's only from a Hebrew perspective and he actually spoke something else. But ancient times in the same geographical area wouldn't evolve fast not like how it is today so 2500 years seems like a long time but it would have a slower impact than how we track languages today, but still, it's 2500 years. Hebrew is a Semitic language and before Semitic would have been Proto-Semitic which basically means some sort of ancestral language to Semitic. So depending on how curious your grandson is "Hebrew" may suffice or something like an early form of Hebrew and you can guide him through the verses where Adam names Eve (Chavvah) and then show the meaning of Eve. (Adam is also a Hebrew word too). Or you can take it to Semitic and then Proto-Semitic and explain what both these terms mean.

FenderTL5 said:

Why, 1611 King James English of course.

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Not true! He was speaking in Latin of course, which everyone knows is the tongue of angels Paul referred to in 1 Cor 13:1. Sheez