Have you ever tried to “know” things without words? Since only humans appear to have complex speech, are we the only animal capable of eating from the tree promoted to Eve by Eden’s serpent?
Semantic studies suggest all languages may have originated about 90,000 years ago in Africa, at a time when the geneticists say there were only about 2000 humans .. the ancestor of modern Homo Loquendo?
Yet Adam names all the fowl of the air, names to all the cattle..wonder if his favorite was Bessie. And all the beast of the field. Guess that leaves out walruses, penguins, puffins, polar bears, and most whales. And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman. because she was taken out of man.” Not very biologically correct, but it is a great story. Then there is the story of the Tower of Babel..and all these languages.
Did Neanderthals have language?
And modern homo sapiens have been around 200,000 years. There were exoduses of humans from Africa before 90.000. Is there just one instance of a language common to all human beings, or did language appear separately in different regions. I think it can be argued both ways, still Asian languages are tonal which is very different from most indo European languages.
What if God had more than one garden and the story repeated in different places, with different snakes and different Adam and Eves? Perhaps the story did not repeat along the Amazon and that garden is still there, and the natives actually created the Amazon forest that is the backbone of that garden.
The mix of paleogenetics, archaelogy, and linguistics favors as singl origin an ANATOMICAL modern humans. But, language is more confusings. There is evidence for what may be symbolic communication/lnaguage as far baclas 100 in Sout h Africa, New Guinea, Morocco,
WEw do nto know whether the advent included gnetic chnages but it seems likley that it was ina small groups.