Nope, and I'd never dream of trying. The Tower of Babel tale was inserted, probably during the Babylonian Exile, or during the long period thereafter when a large Jewish community thrived under Persian rule. Some see it as allegorical or metaphorical, I see it as a little of that, with a big dose of "explain why there are all these different languages." Turkish (an agglutinative tongue) is most closely related to Korean (also agglutinative) but neither of them is related to Sumerian (an agglutinative tongue with no living or dead relatives).
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10 posted on 07/22/2004 12:03:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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