What language did Adam speak?

nolidad said:

Well then put another shrimp on the Barbie MAte!!!!

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Will do.

klutedavid said:

Don't tell me you believe in talking snakes?

Ever heard of an allegory.

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“Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey,
and she said to Balaam,...

Did the donkey talk? Is anything to hard for God.

"When He arrived at the other side in the region of
the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming
from the tombs met Him.

Do you believe fallen angels can possess men,
and could speak through them like the bible says.
If they can speak through humans, why not animals.

"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light. also Matthew 4

The Angeles where made way more powerful then man.
I see no reason Satan could not speak through a snake.

Do you believe snakes once had legs as bible says ?

Before modern linguistics, when it was still in its infancy as a discipline, this was a common question. The question of an Adamic or Edenic language was a matter of speculation and debate, at least as far back as the middle ages if not certainly long before then.

One of the propositions that I remember was the case of a clergyman proposing that Basque was or may have been the language of Adam; I believe the rationale for this was that Basque is a language anomaly in Europe, it's what is known as a language isolate--a language with no known related languages. All over Europe people speak an Indo-European language, this is true of the Celtic, Germanic, Slavic, and Greek languages. But Basque isn't an Indo-European language, and it has no relationship to any known language family--therefore the speculation went that it was somehow the survivor of the ancient language of Adam. Now, of course, it also just so happens that the priest who thought of this was himself Basque, and coincidentally, many of the churchmen in Basque country liked the idea and generally agreed--nobody else really ever took this too seriously.

Basque is, of course, not the language of Adam; it's just anomalous in Europe because of it being one of the only surviving non-Indo-European languages spoken in Europe, and also having no known relationships with any other extant language.

The fact of the matter is that whether one believes in a literal Adam and Eve living sometime within the last ten thousand years, or as divinely inspired mythology and Adam and Eve are more representative of mankind when it fell at some point; there simply isn't an answer to the question.

In linguistic circles attempts at trying to unify language familities together into a single global language family, and thus attempt to theorize or reconstruct the ur-language of humanity have consistently failed. No such theory has ever gained serious acceptance, and such things tend toward the fringes where things become quackery and pseudo-science. So it isn't even possible to conclude that all languages do share a common origin, let alone one that could be potentially reconstructed (in the way that Proto-Indo-European has for example).

If there are answers to these questions, and there very likely isn't, nobody thus far has any.

-CryptoLutheran

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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Before, or after Egyptian corruptions, do you suppose? Languages morph, you know.

Semper-Fi said:

“Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey,
and she said to Balaam,...

Did the donkey talk? Is anything to hard for God.

"When He arrived at the other side in the region of
the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming
from the tombs met Him.

Do you believe fallen angels can possess men,
and could speak through them like the bible says.
If they can speak through humans, why not animals.

"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light. also Matthew 4

The Angeles where made way more powerful then man.
I see no reason Satan could not speak through a snake.

Do you believe snakes once had legs as bible says ?

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A good reply. I can accept that the snake could indeed conduct a conversation. Though Adam was alone in the garden, which may suggest that the other wildlife was silent.

ChristianForCats said:

Body language is an inherent ability in all people whether they are born deaf or not. People with profound hearing loss (>90 dB) often learn sign language first and a spoken language after they get hearing aids. I read on a Bible site there are Bibles for people whose native language is American sign language (ASL) to help them learn it in English. Of course, there also are people who become deaf later in life, so they know how to speak and read the local written language.

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Sign language has to be taught. Body language has to be interpreted and that is not automatic - you can find many sources to teach you.

klutedavid said:

I must have missed the verses in the text that tell us, that Adam conversed with the animals. Where is that in the text?

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Adam had authority over every creature. We talk to domestic animals and they can understand to a degree what we are saying. How much more so before the fall?

ChristianForCats said:

Like the fact the Old Testament was written in Hebrew? That is all I can think of.

Honestly I always thought the first language was English because of their names and how "womb" is from "woman" - the word Adam called Eve. If they had Hebrew names, I would not expect the Bible to have an English name for either of them. But throughout the Bible many more people have English names: Sarah, Paul, Peter, Andrew, John, James, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, Mark, and many more I don't even know.

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You do know that English speakers took those names from the Bible, not vice versa?

klutedavid said:

Don't tell me you believe in talking snakes?

Ever heard of an allegory.

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As your heart so teaches you Christ be blessed...

One of His, Not me

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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He called or named things for what they were, how he observed them to be, etc... With animals, how they acted and behaved, what their greatest traits are or were, etc, and maybe even some of their no so great a traits maybe also, etc... And there were not a "thousand different words for the same thing", or "multiple different things", etc, or "multiple different languages", etc, cause it was before the Flood and before the Tower of Babel... It was a much, much more "pure", and much much "less confused" (confounded) language...

I remember an old movie, "Eragon", and in it, the boy is learning about the "magic language", etc, and the man who was teaching him, said, there was only "one word for a thing", "one thing", and that "the word was the thing", "meant the thing", etc, and that's probably another way I might describe it, etc... And to say the words, in that ancient language, was to call upon, or call forth it's power, or the power of the thing, etc, hence the "magic" part of it, etc... Now I know it was just a movie, and I don't know how "magical" Adam's language was, but I do know that "the name or word was the thing", "meant the thing", etc, and there was "only ever only one word ever only, for only one thing only", etc...

Whatever language it was, (I think it has been lost to time), it "defined everything in a way that we just have no common frame of reference for just how extremely accurately it defined things (and everything) today", etc...

God Bless!

ChristianForCats said:

But throughout the Bible many more people have English names: Sarah, Paul, Peter, Andrew, John, James, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, Mark, and many more I don't even know.

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In Bible translations in other languages, at least other European languages, those names are rendered in the equivalents in those languages. For example, in a Spanish language Bible, Peter, Paul, John and Mary would be rendered as Pedro, Pablo, Juan and Maria.

Neogaia777 said:

He called or named things for what they were, how he observed them to be, etc... With animals, how they acted and behaved, what their greatest traits are or were, etc, and maybe even some of their no so great a traits maybe also, etc... And there were not a "thousand different words for the same thing", or "multiple different things", etc, or "multiple different languages", etc, cause it was before the Flood and before the Tower of Babel... It was a much, much more "pure", and much much "less confused" (confounded) language...

I remember an old movie, "Eragon", and in it, the boy is learning about the "magic language", etc, and the man who was teaching him, said, there was only "one word for a thing", "one thing", and that "the word was the thing", "meant the thing", etc, and that's probably another way I might describe it, etc... And to say the words, in that ancient language, was to call upon, or call forth it's power, or the power of the thing, etc, hence the "magic" part of it, etc... Now I know it was just a movie, and I don't know how "magical" Adam's language was, but I do know that "the name or word was the thing", "meant the thing", etc, and there was "only ever only one word ever only, for only one thing only", etc...

Whatever language it was, (I think it has been lost to time), it "defined everything in a way that we just have no common frame of reference for just how extremely accurately it defined things (and everything) today", etc...

God Bless!

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Oh, and Adam got to "create it", that language also, etc, cause God let him do that... He (God) was curious as to how Adam would do it, and/or would call or name things, etc... How he would "define" them, etc, cause before that, they were all completely undefined, etc...

Or God only defined as few of only the most basic things as He had to as for Adam only to have some common frame of reference, or some sort of sense of direction, (north, south, east, and west, etc) (and a few other basic things, etc), (up and down maybe, etc), (good and evil, etc), (or so they thought maybe, etc), but beyond that, He let Adam pretty much define "all of the rest of it", or "all the rest of the things and everything", etc...

Anyway,

God Bless!

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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Early man spoke in grunts. Probably the Hottentot clicks was the earliest language. Very difficult to do. Missionaries to the region have to learn it, or the one I knew did, but that was 40 years ago. Perhaps they have TV now and speak a more modern language.
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klutedavid said:

As a matter of fact, before Eve was created, Adam never spoke to anyone except the Creator. Did Adam have regular discourse with God?

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God created them male and female.
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jacks said:

This is a good time to let your grandson know, that for many questions the answer is "No one knows."

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This is so right. I feel like modern kids don't have that basic fact of life instilled in them anymore. They grow up thinking that science etc. knows everything, which is obviously not true at all. There are many things that humanity can never and will never know, and that's alright. We don't have to know everything.

They probably didn't speak any language. They probably communicated with each other in the same way God communicates with himself and how we're all going to communicate one day.

Come on think about it. The Apostles spoke Greek and Aramaic and had no understanding of the Languages spoken today (French, Japanese, English, Spanish ...etc) Yet, somehow we're all going to understand each other in Heaven. We're not all going to speak English and call it a day, we're more than likely going to speak whatever language it is that God uses to speak to himself. We probably won't even remember speaking English after several dozen million years. Don't you think?

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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Maybe a language long forgotten? What language does God speak to His angels? Maybe the same language?

Neostarwcc said:

They probably didn't speak any language. They probably communicated with each other in the same way God communicates with himself and how we're all going to communicate one day.

Come on think about it. The Apostles spoke Greek and Aramaic and had no understanding of the Languages spoken today (French, Japanese, English, Spanish ...etc) Yet, somehow we're all going to understand each other in Heaven. We're not all going to speak English and call it a day, we're more than likely going to speak whatever language it is that God uses to speak to himself. We probably won't even remember speaking English after several dozen million years. Don't you think?

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The Australian version of English is the spoken language in heaven. Adam originally spoke the Australian version but it was lost for millennia. Now its is back in common usage again and I would suggest every other country in the world. Should learn how to communicate in God's true language.

There are things I could tell you but I am not allowed. Be grateful for this revelation.