a babel of languages

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• BABEL, TOWER OF — BABEL, TOWER OF, the edifice whose building is portrayed in Genesis 11:1–9 as the direct cause of the diversity of languages in the world and the dispersion of mankind over all the earth. According to the preceding narrative, mankind after the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Babel — Ba bel, n. [Heb. B[=a]bel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of confusion. ] 1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. [1913 Webster] Therefore is the name of …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Babel (disambiguation) — Babel is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon. The Babil Governorate in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as Babel .Babel may also refer to:In literature:* Babel (newspaper), an Iraqi newspaper * Babel… …   Wikipedia

• Languages of the European Union — Official language(s) Bulgarian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German …   Wikipedia

• babel — ► NOUN ▪ a confused noise made by a number of voices. ORIGIN from the biblical Tower of Babel, where God confused the languages of the builders …   English terms dictionary

• Babel Fish (website) — Infobox Website name = Babel Fish caption = url = http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ commercial = type = Translation service language = registration = owner = Yahoo author = AltaVista launch date = current status = revenue = Babel Fish is a web based… …   Wikipedia

• Babel Fish — Yahoo! Babel Fish http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ Kommerziell Nein Beschreibung Übersetzungsdienst Eigentümer Yahoo Urheber …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Babel Middleware — Infobox Software name = Babel caption = author = developer = LLNL released = latest release version = 1.2.0 latest release date = November 2008 operating system = cross platform genre = middleware license = LGPL website =… …   Wikipedia

• Babel, Tower of — In the Hebrew scriptures, a high tower built in Shinar (Babylonia). According to Genesis 11:1–9, the Babylonians wanted to build a tower with its top in the heavens. Angry at their presumption, God disrupted the enterprise by confusing the… …   Universalium

• Babel fish — The Babel fish is a fictional species in The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.It is introduced in the first novel of the series as a species of fish that can instantly translate any language to any other language: The… …   Wikipedia

• Babel-17 — infobox Book | name = Babel 17 title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of first edition paperback author = Samuel R. Delany illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Science fiction novel… …   Wikipedia