Sure. I get the logic. You could also make an argument based on Adam's
name. But these arguments are by no means conclusive. Although, these
concepts do not translate well into all languages that is not to say
that there could not have been an prior language where this play on
words also worked. It works in English (man and woman) and all we have
to do is translate Adam's name into English and we could make an
argument for English being the 'mother' of all languages and the
language that was spoken in Eden.
Also, even if we were to actually know what language Adam and Eve were
speaking in the garden of Eden that would in no way make it the
'mother' of all languages as if other languages descended from it. The
account of Babel does not describe a gradual process of linguistic
evolution. It describes the very sudden and instantaneous confusion of
everybody's language so that each were using a completely different
set of words. There is not even an undertone that these languages are
all etymologically related in some way.
James Christian
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