What language did Adam & Eve speak?

Fictionese would be my guess.

babylonian?

Assuming for a moment that Adam & Eve really existed and that Eden was somewhere in the semetic world I would imagine that they would have spoken Proto Indo-European.

How do u explain the existance of cavemen and adam-eve?

The bible said no knowledge was hidden from Adam. He could even communicate with the creatures in the garden and even face to face with God. When a serpent started talking to him, it wasn’t strange at all to them, so they had to have already been talking to the animals.

As far as what language they used to talk to each other and to God with, some kind of perfect language. It was used by everyone on the planet, EVERYONE, until the Tower of Babel. So this language got broken up into the different ones we know today. And likely the one closest to the original would have gone to God’s chosen people, and be Hebrew.

If you take a look at languages we have today, they each have something good. English is really good at emphasizing the timing of events. But Japanese is really good at emphasizing emotions and attachments. The original language of the Garden of Life probably was one that conveyed everything perfectly and was handy enough for the entire world to use it.

@mea05key that actually sounds like a good question to ask separate from this thread. I’d be interested to see responses.

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If you are talking about “what language did the first people who spoke a recognizable language speak,” I would recommend this book that I just talked up on another question. @AstroChuck is going in the right direction, but the answer is older than proto-Indo-European.

If you’re talking about “what language would people speak who lived in the Fertile Crescent in about 5000 BC when some people believe the world began,” others here are correct in that it would be some alphabetic language like Hebrew. The invention of alphabetic script (as opposed to a picture-based language like Egyptian Heiroglyphics) caused a massive change in the way people thought, which is explained in this book. It caused such a massive shift in the psyche of alphabet-using people that some cultures consider that to be the beginning of the world.

The snarky answer that would get me accused of intolerance is “Why, of course they spoke King James’ English!” ;)

They spoke English, doesn’t everybody?

I’d go with Hebrew or Aramaic.

Edit: Semitic

@laureth- I suppose I should have said Proto Indo-European/Uralic/Altaic, if you prefer that. If we figure that they spoke a proto-Canaanite language (forefather of Old Hebrew, which, of course is not Indo-European) then it would fall in the PIE-U/A family. Of course, this language would pre-date the events depicted in the book of Genesis.
Also, have you read much by John McWhorter? I met him once at a booksigning in Oakland. He’s a pretty intersting guy.

OK you imposter——what have you done with goofy AstroChuck

Shhh. I have him tied up with duct tape in my crawlspace.

Well, I don’t suppose we would know, because the story “Adam and Eve” is translated into many languages, and I don’t suppose the original was ever written down. So really, they spoke all languages.

Edenese?

Bulgarian. Doesn’t everybody know that?

I’d think it was something onomatopoeic in nature. After all, it would be the first language, right?

Wouldn’t they use the same language that Adam’s mom and dad spoke?

What was there to talk about anyway?

@AC But they didn’t have parents, remember? ; )

But really, how would they even know how to talk? They were said to be the first human beings on Earth, they didn’t even know anything at first, they made up names for animals, supposedly, etc. So they probably didn’t talk much at all.

The question is hypothetical, and obviously does not refer to real historical figures speaking a real language. But if we are to take the Bible literally and assume those fictional characters ever existed, then, like z28proximo said, they’d have to speak Hebrew.

Or perhaps Astral ;)

It wouldn’t have been Hebrew because they would have lived who knows how many years before the Old Testament was written… not to mention the tower of Babel.

It was Adamic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamic_language

@morphail Nice.

I’d venture that if it was a spoken language that we can identify now…it would have been Sumerian.

they didn’t it was telepathic

@bnetter12 if they were telepathic why arent we then?

Nobody wants to know what their SO ts really thinking!

well,has anyone thought about Arabic.First it’s a semetic language like Hebrew.Second,it’s the language of Heber who is the only one survived from the pluralism of languages at the Tower of Babylon.Third,if anyone honestly looked deeper at it,it would show that it really works on all levels of life beginning from emotions,feelings,reasoning,poetry,prose,science,and everything.It’s really the perfect laguage I see.

i believe it was a form of telepathy too. If we are believers of the myth at all, Adam must have communicated with Eve in the same way he communicated with God. When they fell out of commune with God and were put out of the garden they lost this perfect and most efficient form of communication along with all the other perks of Eden.

mamadeleau- Interesting take.

I too, believe in the theory of Adam, Eve and GOD communicating in some form of Telepathy. Think about it, what language could or would they speak anyway? there wasn’t anybody else around for Adam to talk to and besides, he would need an alphabet of somekind to create the words right? Adams gift was to name, not establish a language. The whole temtation of Eve was definately a sophisticated form of communication if you think about it? It was a little more then just an “I satan,- you jane, now take big bite of fruit” thing….and further more if if the serpant could commnicate in such a way with Eve, that brings up an interesting thought…... there must have been some type of higher understanding between Adam and Eve and the animals, If that is possible in anyway, then the idea of Telepathy and thought transmission, is not so far fetched at all….Another thing….I really don’t see how they would have the need to conversate about anything They were living in an eternal moment of bliss, no need to waste it by talking. When they were cut off from GOD, maybe, it entailed loosing that Telepathic connection. If you think about it, when done properly….that is what true prayer is, and why it can be liturally “powerful”.....as in like X man superpower kind of thing. What is so far fetched about it????? or would we rather believe that GOD is actually more impressed with microsoft, i phones, or or super fast dsl????

People were talking long before they were writing. (And writing for some time before there were actual alphabets.)

I don’t think they had telepathy. The God who created Adam and Eve and also the world has the power to put a language into someones mind.

Interesting question. I was pondering it myself and decided to Google it and ran into this site.
Here are my thoughts….

I believe that Adam and Eve had a perfect language, because they got it from God and what God makes is perfect. I also believe that they were one with nature and had an ability to communicate, not just with the animals, but creation as a whole, after all God did give them dominion over all the earth… lot stock and barrel. So even though they might have a sense of telepathy, I’m also positive they had a spoken language too. I don’t think that God made the vocal chords and the voice box just for show. Even as God is a Spirit, he himself used the spoken word to create the worlds.

Okay, so they had this language that we don’t know about. Adam and eve spoke it, taught it to their children and their children to their off-springs, so it’s pretty safe to say that the antediluvian age all spoke that language. That brings us to the flood where Noah and his family came over speaking the only language they knew, and taught their off-springs the language until they got to the tower of Babel (meaning confusion) where the language was confounded.

So having nothing really to base this on, I think that the original language was abated altogether and different languages were given out to the inhabiters of the earth at that time.
I guess it’s one of the mysteries that we won’t really know in this life but interesting topic nonetheless.

I cant believe people are actually having this conversation. Evolution my friends.

Evolution is just the moronic theory of the day. There is about as much REAL evidence to support evolution as there is to support the stimulus package. No transitional fossils – no genetic links to “discovered” ancestors – don’t even get me started on the holes in the big bang. Anybody remember Piltdown man and Lucy? I’m taking bets as for which theory dies out first – evolution or global warming. Of course, some of you might still be hiding from Halley’s comet. As for the language. Come on y’all – read a book sometime. The oldest known languages are Sumerian and Egyptian. Adam either spoke some ancient version of these or something even older.

@TonySam- Don’t forget about gravity. What a stupid theory that is.

Dear Friends…I would like to shock you all… the Adamic Language is doable today… It is assimilated from nearly every language… esp..Heb. Grk, ... but the great clincher is that while it will work on many languages…The English, or Angelish.. that is the dialects of of the Anglosaxons… of Angels and Issac’s sons. is the closest in most cases. It is the restored Languge of Adam…..there is much more than can be taught or said here… but there are 4 degrees in the spoken and then what I call the Spiritual kaleidoscope kicks in and your spiritual eye actually see the events in pure pictorial form and the verbal vernacular comes inwardly as well…Yeh right.!!!... you say… well seeing, learning and using will prove or disprove… if you have that interest then Email me @ davidsmithsun@yahoo.com… all are welcome.. questions and discussions and opinions..just so we remain civil… I have been working on this for over 39 years.. and will be both able and happy to teach you…no money or gratuity required… Your friend in Christ David….be assured this is no joke…my offer is real….

I hate to say this, but English is the language that Norman knights came up with to try to arrange dates with Saxon barmaids.

Dear Laureth…..so right you are…and in being so make my point well…there were hoards of Normans in at least 2 different eras…of many different dialects, but the same root language..
While the Norse themselves were a fairly diverse set of tribes and clans speaking a variety of languages, they nevertheless had much in common. The languages they spoke were all of the same family of languages.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MA/NORSE.HTM
They as well mixed with the Germanic tribes..and in Adamic, German is ”“men of the light of the Throne”......It can be shown from the Bible and the Tower of Babel script when the language was originally split but as to the gathering up into one prior to the last days called the Dispensation of the fullness of time…
Eph 1:10 That inG1519 the dispensationG3622 of theG3588 fulnessG4138 of timesG2540 he might gather together in oneG346 all thingsG3956 inG1722 Christ,G5547 bothG5037 whichG3588 are inG1722 heaven,G3772 andG2532 whichG3588 are onG1909 earth;G1093 even inG1722 him:G846
And Then: Zep 3:9 ForH3588 thenH227 will I turnH2015 toH413 the peopleH5971 a pureH1305 language,H8193 that they may allH3605 callH7121 upon the nameH8034 of the LORD,H3068 to serveH5647 him with oneH259 consent.H7926…YOU show the Norse, recombinign,,, as the Hebrew and the Greek and many other languages have influences the Modren English which the Old English was not ledgable to modern man without training… it has Migrated to what it is now and Spoken in some degree of the countries of the world…Then Anglosaxon. is thus known:
Old English / Anglo-Saxon
Old English / Anglo-Saxon (Englisc) ... Anglo-Saxon Futhorc… Old English / Anglo-Saxon was sometimes written with a version of the Runic alphabet, brought to Britain by the Anglo-Saxons until about…
www.omniglot.com/writing/oldenglish.html
Note the (Englisc) maybe we change the c to h .. but English nevertheless; then Anglo but in Adamic Anglow….1st.degree… Eternal sealing at the throne of Love; the place of blessing.
2nd degree. adds an i.. as ainglow. Sealed in the House of.Eternal of the covenant blessing.
3rd degree..First light
4th degree. Aingi or ainge to which in modern English we have redacted the I and added the L for angel…
So we have;... Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, is the language spoken by the English inhabitants…
www.directhit.com/ansres/Anglo-saxon-Translator.html
Saxon of course being Isac’s Sons
Genesis contains two significant prophecies about the name of the Israelite peoples. In the first, Genesis 21:12, God tells Abraham to send Ishmael and his mother away, “for in Isaac your seed shall be called.” Paul repeats this twice in the New Testament (Romans 9:7; Hebrews 11:18). On the surface this seems to mean that God would consider Isaac’s progeny to be the true sons of Abraham, and this is true. But it means so much more! It also means that Israel would call itself by the name “Isaac” in later times.

The second prophecy concerns Jacob’s blessing on the sons of Joseph. In his prayer he asks God to “bless the lads; let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac” (Genesis 48:16). This confirms God’s words to Abraham, only this time it is specifically directed toward the birthright tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. The descendants of Joseph would bear the names of the patriarchs, particularly Isaac.
Israel may have already been calling itself “the house of Isaac” or “the sons of Isaac” even before their overthrow and captivity.

After Assyria fell, ancient records tell of a new people living around the shores of the Caspian Sea. These people were variously known as Sakai, Sacae, Sagetae, Sakki, Scyths, Scythians, Scuths, Scuits, Scolotoi, and Scots. In his book The Tribes, Yair Davidy writes:

SACCAE was the contemporary Middle Eastern term for Scyth and the name is believed to be a derivative of ‘Isaac’. The appellation ‘Saxe’ or ‘Saxon’ is a further development of the same name. (p. 128)

Read more: http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Topical.show/RTD/cgg/ID/2223/Isaacs-Sons.htm#ixzz17C2xbCRs
I would be happy to continue this discourse with anyone and the application of the Adamic as well and how it opens the mind to a much fuller understanding of the Scriptures while keeping Christ Centered…
Happy to answer any other questions Laureth…thanks agian…david
davidsmithson@yahoo.com

Hoo boy, that’s a lot to digest, David. :) Off the top of my head, isn’t it interesting that Charlemagne (or, “Charlie the Mange” as some call him) had to convert the erstwhile carriers of the Jewish legacy (although they were pretty into Thor and Odin at the time) by the sword to Christianity? If they were carrying the seed of Abraham, they seem to have utterly forgotten about that. If only these folks knew they were Judeo-Christian all along, I bet they would have gone along with the conversion process with rather less suffering, eh?

Frankly, to me, this sounds like a sort of religious-based justification of English (and by extension, American) Exceptionalism. It would take a whole lot of not Christ-Centered evidence to convince me this has any validity at all, such as reputable linguistic and genetic evidence to back up the point you’re trying to make. Certainly, the usual etymology of Saxon doesn’t seem to agree with you.

i think Adam talked in every languge as some scientists explained the verses oh Holly Quran soret al bakara ” و علم ادم الاسماء كلها
” and he taught Adam all names” so Adam could have talked all languges including Arabic which is one of the oldest languges

The Adamic language was telepathy. It's the first language. The second language didn't come until Babel.