An alternative resource (should you choose to accept it)

During my travels along my path on my quest for the perfect language...

...I ran across some notes I'd jotted down in my Mormon scriptures--specifically The Pearl of Great Price. This book, should you choose to believe it, is a set of two small books of scripture: the book of Abraham and the book of Moses. I cannot recall the exact nature of its acquisition into the Mormon canon, but i'm sure there are plenty of online sites that give you more than you'd ever need to know about it. I'm gonna say that the books are sort of similar to the concept of the Dead Sea scrolls or something. I'll have to look it up later.

Anyways, I figure "If i've got the extra info, why not use it?"

So here it is, for you, my fellow perfect-language seekers...the Mormon insight into the original language on Earth, spoken between God and Adam.

Idumea-the world (D&C 1:36)

Zion-the name of the Lord's people, who are of one heart and one mind; they dwelt in righteousness (Moses 7:18)

Shinehah-the sun (Abraham 3:13)

Kokob-star (Abr 3:13)

Olea-the moon (Abr 3:13)

Kokaubeam-stars, or all the great lights in the firmament of heaven (Abr 3:13)

Kolob-the greatest of all kokaubeam, the nearest unto God (Abr 3:13)

gnolaum-eternal (referring to beings or things, without beginning or end) (Abr 3:18)

woman-name for the second human on earth (a female), because 'she was taken out of man' (Abr 5:17)

I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones I'd marked several years back, whilst doing my dutiful daily scripture study. (Such a good little Mormon, I was!!) ;)

Theories Abound.

Johannes Petrus Ericus assumed that Adam had named each animal by a name that reproduced the sounds that each emitted; then he elaborated a rather credible phonological theory identifying classes of letters such as 'per sibilatione per dentes,'...'per contractione palati,'...'per respiratione per nares.' Ericus concluded that Adam used vowels for the names of the birds of the air, semi-vowels for the names of the beasts of the fields, and mutes for the fish. This rather elementary phonetics also enabled Ericus to deduce the seven notes of the musical scale as well as the seven letters which designate them...

The Search for the Perfect Language, Umberto Eco.

On the trail of the Language Assassins...

Someone bastardized our language.

I'm gonna find out who--and I'm gonna kick their butts...

(In a graceful, linguistic way, of course.)

And now for something completely different...