What Is the Original Language?

Mark Kreisler: If God created all these different languages there at Babel to keep people from building tall stuff, then what was it like before that? The first verse of the Babel story reads, Now the whole world had one language and one common speech. So, what was that language? And this isn't just a biblical question. Nearly every culture seems to have held a belief in an original language. This is The Constance, a history of getting things wrong.