Tongues-Speech

Abstract

"The purpose of this article is to present selected historical data relevant to the possible presence of tongues-speech in the era immediately following the apos- tles. The word akolalia will be used with the familiar glossolalia and xenolalia to make technical distinctions between various types of tongues-speech. Glossolalia is a form of speech that does not directly correspond to any known language, while akolalia describes that phenomenon in which the speaker uses one language and the audience "hears" the words in (a) different language(s). Xenolalia refers to one speaking in a known language that the person has not learned by mechani- cal methods"