Genesis 11:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

All the host of them] i.e. 'all the contents of heaven and earth.'

It used to be conjectured that Hebrew was the primitive language of mankind, but it is now known that that language is only one branch, and that not the oldest, of the Semitic group of languages including Assyrian, Aramaic, Phœnician and Arabic.

Genesis 11:1

1 And the whole earth was of one language,a and of one speech.