Of Japheth, the Gentiles descended.
Ham's descendent, Nimrod, founded Babel, among other cities. He was a mighty hunter. Ninevah grew out of those cities that were originally founded by Nimrod, also. And, Philistim, of whom the Philistines were descended.
During the third generation of Shem, the continents on the earth split apart and the earth was divided. And all of the sons, grandsons, great grandsons and great great grandsons of Noah spread upon the face of the earth to claim all the lands.
Today, scientists call it the "continental divide". If you take each piece of land on a map and cut them out, you can pretty much piece them together all in one great landmass. But, now they are the continents and the islands of the earth.
They formed their own languages, which is inevitable when people are split apart for long periods of time. Especially when the world was new and new things are being discovered every day and there is lack of communication among the tribes.
After all, when two different people, who don't know each other, discover the same kind of tree, they are likely to call it two different things.
This is how the different languages on earth started.
So, no matter what language someone speaks, or where they come from on earth, we must remember that we are all descended from Noah and Adam.
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