
From Human to Human: An Idea of Creation
005: The Tower
<p>Why do we find it so hard to understand one another? And is the multitude of languages a curse or a gift? The Tower of Babel, nine verses long, written in all likelihood by captives who sat in the shadow of the real tower of Babylon. Plus the discovery of the language families, deaf children who invented a language out of nothing, and a counter-image that turns everything around.</p><p>Topics: Genesis 11, Etemenanki (the real ziggurat of Babylon), language counts and language death, William Jones and the Indo-European family, Nicaraguan Sign Language, how language shapes perception, Dunbar's number...

