Genesis 11

We read that in the days of Noah and his posterity -

"...the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech." (Old Testament | Genesis 11:1)

This must have been the pure adamic language from the beginning.

In those days, in an effort to gain all power over all men, such that all men would perceive a man to be "as if like God", a leader (some believe it to be Nimrod" planned

"...let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." (Old Testament | Genesis 11:4)

I sense what they were trying to do was establish a total tyranny (giving themselves a universal name) whereby all would be under their power and control. For of these wicked rulers the Lord noted -

"...they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." (Old Testament | Genesis 11:6)


That is complete power and control

I also wonder if a secondary purpose of the tower was so that no flood, which had only happened several generations before, could not destroy them and their wickedness. Seeing the wickedness of the people, the Lord said -

"...let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city." (Old Testament | Genesis 11:7 - 8)

It seems the confounding of language was the vehicle that never allowed man to have overpowering control over all nations.

Even though the languages were confounded, the pure adamic language was not totally lost for we learn in the writings of Ether as -

"...the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will not confound us that we may not understand our words.
35 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry unto the Lord, and the Lord had compassion upon Jared; therefore he did not confound the language of Jared; and Jared and his brother were not confounded.
36 Then Jared said unto his brother: Cry again unto the Lord, and it may be that he will turn away his anger from them who are our friends, that he confound not their language.
37 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry unto the Lord, and the Lord had compassion upon their friends and their families also, that they were not confounded." (Book of Mormon | Ether 1:34 - 37)