Babel

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Babel is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon.

Babel may also refer to:

People

• Günther Babel, German politician
• Isaak Babel, Soviet journalist, playwright, and short story writer
• Johann Baptist Babel, Swiss sculptor
• Louis Babel, Oblate priest
• Matte Babel, Canadian television personality
• Meike Babel, German tennis champion
• Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer

Places

• Babel, Carmarthenshire is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
• The Babil Governorate in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as "Babel".
• Babel Island, Tasmania, Australia
• Mount Babel (Alberta), Canada
• Mount Babel (Quebec), Canada

Tower of Babel

• Tower of Babel - Biblical account
• Tower of Babel (disambiguation) - various artistic and written works deriving from the Biblical account

Literature

• Babel (newspaper), an Iraqi newspaper
• Babel (book), by Patti Smith
• Babel-17, a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is strongly influential
• Babel, a journal produced by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations

Music

• Babel Fish (band), a Norwegian band who got their name from the Douglas Adams books
• Babel (soundtrack), the soundtrack album from the 2006 film
• Babel Label, a British record label
• "Babel", a song from the album Heligoland by Massive Attack

Film

• Babel (1999 film)
• Babel (film), a 2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Translation aids

• Babel fish, a fictional creature from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
• Babel Fish (website), an automated bilingual dictionary lookup service for words and phrases

Star Trek

• "Babel" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Babel (planet), a neutrally aligned planet in the fictional Star Trek universe
• "Journey to Babel", an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series
• "Babel One", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

Other

• Babels, a volunteer translators network
• GPSBabel, GPS file format conversion software
• OpenBabel, open-source chemical modeling software
• Wikipedia:Babel, a language template system to identify Wikipedia users speaking certain languages
• Babel (protocol), a loop-free distance-vector routing protocol
• Babel, a Turbo CD role-playing game released by Nippon Telenet
• 5808 Babel', a minor planet
• BABEL, a programming language
• Babel, a fictional artificial island from the game Thunder Force V

See also

• All pages beginning with "Babel"
• All pages with titles containing "Babel"
• Babble (disambiguation)
• Bab (disambiguation)
• Babbel

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