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From a religious point of view why do people speak different languages?
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Genesis 11:1 (KJV) And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Genesis 11:2 (KJV) 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.
Genesis 11:3 (KJV) And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Genesis 11:4 (KJV) And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:5 (KJV) And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Genesis 11:6 (KJV) And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis 11:7 (KJV) Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Genesis 11:8 (KJV) So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis 11:9 (KJV) Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Answer:People speak different languages because ...................................................................If you are religious, you may say God did it. In the book of Genesis, it tells how the early people in Babel wanted to build a high tower that could reach up to the heavens. The reason seemed to be so that they could worship their gods but the God Jehovah saw it as a way to elevate Man to a higher level of importance. So God decided to confuse their languages and they began to speak in different tongues. Since the people could not communicate, therefore they could not build the Tower of Babel. (There was a Tower of Babel built but it was not the one that was planned.)
This is where we get the word "babel" for unintelligable speech.
People speak different languages because they are the languages that they have been taught as the grow up, so they learn that language primarily.
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