WHERE AND WHEN DID IT HAPPEN?

 The Bible states that the confusion of language and dispersion of the people took place "in the land of Shinar," later called Babylonia. (Genesis 11:12) When did that happen? "The earth ["earth's population," footnote] was divided, says the Bible, in the days of Peleg, who was born about 250 years before Abraham. So the events of Babel evidently took place some 4,200 years ago. - GENESIS 10:25; 11:18-26.

Some scholars theorize those modern languages stem from one original language-the so-called mother tongue that they thought human spoke 100,000 years ago. Others claim that today's languages are related to several root languages spoken at least 6,000 years ago. But how linguists reconstruct the development of extinct languages?" "That is tricky," says the Economist magazine.

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