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Results of Babel

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 12.

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Results of Babel

RESULTS OF BABEL.—A distinguished geographer has enumerated 860 distinct languages, and 5,000 dialects in the world. Of these, 53 belong to Europe, 114 to Africa, 123 to Asia, 417 to America, and 117 to Oceania. This probably does not comprise the whole, for many provinces have a tongue more or less peculiar. In the South Seas it is said that there are little islands close together, the inhabitants of which cannot understand each other.