Speaking in tongues?

[Darth]

was shown, not even in the frontal cortex (If you don't know, that is where the language center of the brain is).

There are two main language centres of the brain, not one. Broca's and Wernicke's areas. Brocas is in the frontal lobe, under the primary motor cortex and near the border of the temporal lobe. Wernicke's in in the temporal lobe, extending from the auditory areas to up near the borders of the occipital and pareital lobes. For the vast majority of people these centres are only in the left side of their brain (a small minority have theirs on the right, or on both sides).


They have different functions, Broca's deals with grammar, Wernicke's deals with vobab/meaning.

That nothing much is lighting up when speaking gibberish (Speaking in tongues/Glossolalia) isn't much of a surprise tbh. What use is a grammar centre when just randomly stringing english sounds together?

As I understand it glossolalia is speaking in tongues (to god) like they do in those churches, xenoglossia (xeno as in foreign) is what the disciples reportedly did when they spoke all languages after the holy ghost visited them.

I remember reading about glossolalia a while ago (so I don't have a citation for this, it's from memory), and it turned out that the sounds in their speech were all sounds from their native tongues (or ones they've been exposed to by bilinguals in their congregation). The English speakers are all using sounds found in the english language, while around the world people are making clicking noises and whatever is in their native languages.

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