Linguistics Questions and Answers

What Hebrew words are used to describe God in the book of Genesis?

• Linguistics, Genesis, and Evolution — Part 5 (Semi-Technical)
• See also Q&A: God

Were all of today’s thousands of languages separately created? And if not, have languages evolved?

• Babel
• Towering change
• Talking point
• Is there any such thing as a primitive language?
• The development of languages is nothing like biological evolution (Semi-technical)
• The Tower of Babel account affirmed by linguistics

Are ancient Chinese characters related to Genesis?

• The Lamb of God hidden in Chinese characters (Semi-technical, 2.2 Mb pdf)
• The Original ‘Unknown’ god of China
• Noah’s Ark hidden in the ancient Chinese characters (1.3 Mb pdf)
• Chinese characters and Genesis
• CMI misrepresents ancient Chinese language?
• CMI still misrepresents ancient Chinese language?
• Dating of “oldest pottery” from China is based on assumptions

What happened in the ‘days of Peleg’?

• ‘In Peleg’s days, the earth was divided’: What does this mean? (Does it refer to catastrophic splitting of the continents?)

Have animals learnt to talk?

• Project Nim: Can a chimp learn language?
• Has an ape learned to talk?
• Language — Origins and Evolution (Creation Social Sciences and Humanities Quarterly)
• Bird-brain matches chimps (and neither makes it to grade school)
• Monkeying around with the origins of language

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