The very first Languagehat post was about the language spoken by Adam and Eve, or rather theories thereof, so my eye was lured by a book by Maurice Olender called The Languages of Paradise on that very subject. I managed not to buy it (I'm trying to cut back, honest), but I found an article (pdf file) by Olender from a post on crank linguistics by Cinderella Bloggerfeller, who seems to know a lot about language, so you can find the story (or his version of it) there. If scholarly wackiness amuses you, you'll enjoy it.
Posted by languagehat at March 28, 2003 04:56 PMI don't know what language was spoken by Adam & Eve, or the seven generations that followed them. But the language spoken by the Watchers/Fallen Angels/Sons of God/Nephilim/The Giant rulers/Rakshas (Cf.Gen 6.1)is most likely, "Ancient Tamil".
Posted by: Wg Cdr P David (Retd.) at July 18, 2005 10:15 AMI certainly hope you're kidding!
Posted by: language hat at July 18, 2005 11:51 AM