'Language' in the Bible

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.

The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.