It's actually hard to explain without sounding like I'm making it up.
It's biggest within Pentecostal Christian sects (which accounts for 30 million americans!), and is basically people who "feel the holy spirit" and start babbling random nonsense syllables. It's mentioned a handful of times in the Bible.
If you search Youtube for "speaking in tongues" I'm sure you'll find more than enough video footage of this strange phenomenon.
It's biggest within Pentecostal Christian sects (which accounts for 30 million americans!), and is basically people who "feel the holy spirit" and start babbling random nonsense syllables. It's mentioned a handful of times in the Bible.
If you search Youtube for "speaking in tongues" I'm sure you'll find more than enough video footage of this strange phenomenon.