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NOVA
Season 21 · Episode 20
In Search of the First Language
0.055mDecember 27, 1994
NOVA explores the common threads that link the more than 5,000 languages of Earth, including a controversial theory that claims to reconstruct words from a time when only a handful of languages were spoken, recalling the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.