Glossolalia

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What is glossolalia? Glossolalia is more commonly know as tongues. A phenomenon describing the production of speech from an unknown language, often ascribed to religious experiences, but most can produce glossolalia like sounds with ease. Some also believe that glossolalia can give the gift of tongues allowing a person to speak fluidly in a foreign language without having learned it, but unfortunately no actual proof of this has even been found. Most glossolalia consists of phonemes from the speakers native language and may additionally including phonemes from learned languages. It's a very interesting phenomenon but is nothing more than nonsense an obfuscation of language and sounds in the brain that comes out the mouth.

Additionally, I've included a TLC clip from Youtube before TLC sold out to reality television and actually ran interesting documentaries.

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