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JAMIE - In Genesis 11 What are the languages spoken after God confound their language do we have any record of new languages they spoke? It is interesting to see people started to speak in different languages without learning new language.
JOEL - If we trust the scriptures we do at least know that the Lord did indeed confound the languages, because it not only talks about it in the Bible but also in the Book of Mormon (Omni 1: 22, Mosiah 28: 17 , Ether 1 ), and is therefore not just a myth that many other people would propose.
We know nothing about the languages that people began to speak after their original language was confounded. It is unlikely that every single person suddenly had a different language from everyone else.
Hugh Nibley said:
"If every individual were to speak a tongue all of his own and so go off entirely by himself, the races would have been not merely scattered but quite annihilated. We must not fall into the old vice of reading into the scripture things that are not there." (Nibley, The World of the Jaredites, 1951)
It is more likely that small groups of people or families each had their language confounded so they could not communicate with people of other groups.
Of course whatever those languages were they certainly underwent a lot of evolving and changing over the centuries to what we have today.
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