What language did people speak before the Tower of Babel?

Answer 1

The answer for this (written by a Jewish linguist) includes the following points:

• Opinion: according to Jewish Oral Tradition, Hebrew was the language of the Garden of Eden, so it would have been spoken by everyone before the Tower of Babel
• Fact: The Bible does not actually say what language was spoken
• Fact: any guesses on the language are just guesses
• Opinion: some scholars say that Hebrew had not yet evolved until about 1200 BCE, which is after the traditional date of the writing of the five books of Moses (Torah). There is no way to verify this.
• Opinion: some scholars believe that Hebrew and Old Canaanite were the same language, making Hebrew many thousands of years older than previously thought. There is evidence regarding the similarities, but there is no evidence regarding the age of the languages.
• Opinion: most scholars believe the Tower of Babel story is not factual or literal, and the Biblical accounts are the remnant of a more ancient story widely passed down in the Middle East prior to 1000 BCE.
• Fact: The scientific view is that multiple languages have been spoken for hundreds of thousands of years, possibly longer. The Tower of Babel story was written long before this concept was understood.
  
• Fact: Most people who reject the scientific view, will only accept the answer that conforms with their already-established beliefs. For those people, the only answer they will accept is Hebrew or something related to Hebrew.