In the biblical tradition, as described in the book of Genesis, God created Adam and
“whatsoever Adamcalled every living creature, thatwas the name thereof.”Alternatively,
following a Hindu tradition, language came from Sarasvati,wife of Brahma, creator of the
universe. In most religions, there appears to be a divine source who provides humans
with language. In an attempt to rediscover this original divine language, a fewexperiments
have been carried out, with rather conflicting results. The basic hypothesis seems to have
been that, if human infantswere allowed to growup without hearing any language around
them, then they would spontaneously begin using the original God-given language.