Babel

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Babel is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon.

Babel may also refer to:

People

• Babel (surname)
• Babels, a volunteer translators network

Places

• Babel, Carmarthenshire, a village in Wales
• Babel, a province in Indonesia
• Babel, Khuzestan, a village in Iran
• The Babil Governorate in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as "Babel"
• Babel Island, Tasmania, Australia
• Babel River, Alaska, United States
• Mount Babel (Alberta), Canada
• Mount Babel (Quebec), Canada
• Babylon, Mesopotamia itself

Tower of Babel

• Tower of Babel—Biblical account
• Tower of Babel (disambiguation)—various artistic and written works deriving from the Biblical account

Literature

• Babel (newspaper), an Iraqi newspaper
• Babel (book), by Patti Smith
• Babel (magazine), a magazine about linguistics
• Babel-17, a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is strongly influential
• Babel, a journal produced by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
• The Library of Babel, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges
• Babel fish, a fictional translating creature from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

Film, television and entertainment

• Babel (film), a 2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Star Trek

• "Babel" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Babel (planet), a neutrally aligned planet in the fictional Star Trek universe
• "Babel One", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

Technology and science

• GPSBabel, GPS file format conversion software
• OpenBabel, open-source chemical modeling software
• Babel (protocol), a loop-free distance-vector routing protocol
• Babel, a Turbo CD role-playing game released by Nippon Telenet
• 5808 Babel', a minor planet
• Babel Fish (website), an automated bilingual dictionary lookup service for words and phrases

Music

• Babel, cantata for reciter, male chorus & orchestra by Igor Stravinsky, 1944
• Babel Label, a British record label

Albums

• Babel (soundtrack), Gustavo Santaolalla, the soundtrack album from the 2006 film
• Babel (album), a 2012 album by Mumford & Sons, or its title track (see below)
• Babel, album by German electronic musician Klaus Schulze, 1987
• Babel, Banda Pau Brasil 1997
• Babel, Hughes de Courson 2008
• Babel, Gabriel Yacoub 1997
• Babel, Philip Catherine 1980
• Babel, D*Note 1993
• Babel, Mumford and Sons 2012
• Babel, Massive Attack 2010

Songs

• "Babel" (song), the title track of the aforementioned album by Mumford & Sons
• Babel Fish (band), a Norwegian band who got their name from the Douglas Adams books
• "Babel", a song from the album Heligoland by Massive Attack
• "Babel" by Andreas Grosser Klaus Schulze
• "Babel" by Myra Melford
• "Babel", Randy VanWarmer, B-side to "Suzi" 1981
• "Babel" by Wagem Lads (moisture) 2016

See also

• All pages beginning with "Babel"
• All pages with a title containing Babel
• Babble (disambiguation)
• Bab (disambiguation)
• Babbel, an online language learning platform
• Babol, a city in Iran
• Bable, an alternative name of the Asturian language of Spain