Ursprache     The Lost Language of Paradise

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Ursprache A reconstructed hypothetical parent language. Mythology The term Ursprache is German for the speech of Ur, Ur being an ancient city of Babylonia (modern day Iraq). The home of the fabled Tower of Babel. God is said to have confused human language to prevent us from attaining god-like powers. So the term Ursprache means the Lost Language of Paradise. Suggested search terms: single primal language

For New Jersey 8th Grader, 'Ursprache' Means Fame
Student spells "ursprache" correctly to win the 79th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.
nytimes.com/2006/06/03/nyregion/03bee.html

The Ascent of Humanity
Charles Eisenstein's book, The Ascent of Humanity, describing the history and future of civilization, the gathering collapse, and the converging crises that are birthing a transition to a new age. The development and transcendence of the discrete and separate self.
ascentofhumanity.com/

Babylon and Ziggurats
The neo-Babylonian empire of Nebuchadrezzar II saw Babylon transformed into a vast, sophisticated metropolis adorned with a wealth of new buildings. Although no major works of art have survived other than those connected with architecture, they represent a continuation and revival of the ancient southern Mesopotamian traditions which had decayed following the collapse of the Cassite dynasty.
bible-archaeology.info/ziggurats.htm

The Primal Scattering of Languages - Philosophies, Myths and Genders
In After Babel, George Steiner recounts two main conjectures in mythology which explain the mystery of many tongues on which a view of translation hinges.
bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Lite/LiteLitt.htm

Factuality of Language : Pound's Poetics and Politics
A return to origins invigorates because it is a return to nature and reason.
cwru.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/deshpande/paperabstract.html

Ziggurat - wikipedia.org
Ziggurats were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat
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LangX: Towards a Universal Language
Historically there have been two fundamental types of common language: the ONELANG - or comprehensive national language - and the AUXLANG - or new constructed language.
langx.org/

Lurianic Metaphors, Creativity and the Structure of Language
In the Lurianic Kabbalah we are witness to a theosophical account of the world’s creation, which at the same time provides a foundation for a theory of human creativity as well as a general model for understanding linguistic significance.
newkabbalah.com/FormProp.htm

Unifon alphabet
The Unifon alphabet, which was created by John Malone in 1959, is an alternative way of writing English based on the principle of one letter per phoneme.
omniglot.com/writing/unifon.htm
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Index Translationum
Translation exists because humanity speaks in many tongues. Why should human beings speak thousands of different, mutually incomprehensible languages? One of the most central questions in the study of man’s cerebral and social evolution continues to baffle researchers and anthropologists alike.
portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Babel-in-Progress
Arrangements of Blissymbols and other symbols in a contrived "tree of life".
symbols.net/babelinprogress/

QiQiiKhu - Reconstructing The Language of Paradise
QiQiiKhu is intended to encode a certain view or understanding of the world which includes some things overtly stated but other possibilities merely implied or inferred by subtle patterns in pronunciation and in the arrangement or possible rearrangement of glyphs.
symbols.net/qiqiikhu/