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Book of Jubilees 3.28:
On the day when Adam was expelled from Eden, the mouths of all the wild animals and the cattle and the birds, and of everything that walks or moves, was shut, so that they could no longer speak; for up till then they had spoken with one another in a common tongue.

Hyginus, Fabulae 143:
For many centuries men lived without town or laws, speaking one tongue under the rule of Jove. But after Mercury explained the languages of men (whence he is called hermeneutes, ‘interpreter,’ for Mercury in Greek is called Hermes; he, too, divided the nations), then discord arose among mortals.

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Book of Jubilees 3.28
Hyginus, Fabulae 143

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Amar Annus

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