Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of

Babylon ''Bābili(m)'' * sux, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 * arc, 𐡁𐡁𐡋 ''Bāḇel'' * syc, ܒܒܠ ''Bāḇel'' * grc-gre, Βαβυλών ''Babylṓn'' * he, בָּבֶל ''Bāvel'' * peo, 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢 ''Bābiru'' * elx, 𒀸𒁀𒉿𒇷 ''Babi ...

and may refer to:

Arts and media

Written works

Books

* ''Babel'' (book), by Patti Smith * ''Babel'' (2012 manga), by Narumi Shigematsu * ''Babel'' (2017 manga), by Yūgo Ishikawa *''Babel'', a 1922 novel by

John Cournos John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun () (6 March 1881 – 27 August 1966), was a writer and translator of Russian Jewish background who spent his later life in exile. Early life Cournos was born in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine ...

*''Babel'', a 1969 novel by

Alan Burns (author) Alan Burns (29 December 1929 – 23 December 2013) was an English author and one of the key figures in the short-lived group of experimental writers working in Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s, which included writers such as B. S. Johnson, ...

*''Babel'', a 2016 book by

Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrate ...

and

Ezio Mauro ''Ezio Mauro'' (born 24 October 1948) is an Italian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper la Repubblica from 1996 to 2016. Biography Mauro was born in Dronero, Italy. He started his career as journalist writing for the local news ...

*''Babel'', a 2018 book about linguistics by Gaston Dorren * ''

Babel-17 ''Babel-17'' is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (that language influences thought and perception) plays an important part. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Nove ...

'', a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany * ''

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence ''Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution'' is a 2022 novel by R. F. Kuang. It debuted at the first spot on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list and won Blackwell's Books of the Year for ...

'', a 2022 novel by R. F. Kuang

Periodicals

* ''Babel'' (magazine), a magazine about linguistics * ''Babel'', a journal produced by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations * ''Babel'', a journal published by the

International Federation of Translators The Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (English: International Federation of Translators) is an international grouping of associations of translators, interpreters and terminologists. More than 100 professional associations are affiliate ...

* ''Babel'' (newspaper), an Iraqi newspaper

Film and television

Star Trek

* "Babel" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''), an episode of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' *

Babel (planet) "The Counter-Clock Incident" is the series finale of the American animated science fiction television series ''Star Trek'', the 22nd episode overall. This episode was the sixth and final episode of the second season. It first aired in the NBC Sat ...

, a neutrally aligned planet in the fictional Star Trek universe * "

Babel One "Babel One" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', and originally aired on January 28, 2005. The episode was written by Mike Sussman and André Bormanis, and dire ...

", an episode of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' * "

Journey To Babel "Journey to Babel" is the tenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series '' Star Trek''. Written by D. C. Fontana and directed by Joseph Pevney, it was first broadcast on November 17, 1967. In the episode, ...

", an episode of ''Star Trek'' (the original series)

Other uses in film and television

* ''Babel'' (film), a 2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu * ''Babel'' (TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series * "Babel", an episode of '' Green Lantern: The Animated Series''

Music

Albums

* ''Babel'' (D*Note album), 1993 * ''Babel'' (Mumford & Sons album), a 2012 album by Mumford & Sons, or its title track (see below) * ''Babel'' (soundtrack), by Gustavo Santaolalla, the soundtrack album from the 2006 film * ''Babel'', an album by German electronic musician

Klaus Schulze Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Jokers ...

, 1987 * ''Babel'', an album by

Hughes de Courson Hughes de Courson is a French musician and arranger. The Malicorne years Hughes de Courson is best known for being on all of the albums by Malicorne. He played electric guitar, bass, crumhorn, percussion, recorder, positive organ, piano, elka, ...

, 2008 * ''Babel'', an album by

Gabriel Yacoub Gabriel Yacoub is a French musician, songwriter and visual artist. Biography Yacoub was born in 1952, in Paris, of a Lebanese people, Lebanese father and a French people, French mother. He was a guitarist and singer with the Alan Stivell group ...

, 1997 * ''Babel'', an album by

Philip Catherine Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist. Biography Philip Catherine was born in London, England, to an English mother and Belgian father, and was raised in Brussels, Belgium. His grandfather was a violinist in the ...

, 1980

Songs

* "Babel" (song), the title track of the album ''Babel'' by Mumford & Sons * "Babel", a song from the album ''

Heligoland Heligoland (; german: Helgoland, ; Heligolandic Frisian: , , Mooring Frisian: , da, Helgoland) is a small archipelago in the North Sea. A part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein since 1890, the islands were historically possessions ...

'' by Massive Attack

Other uses in music

Babel Label Babel Label is a jazz record label founded in 1994 by Oliver Weindling. It released more than 130 recordings in its first 20 years, two of which were nominated for the Mercury Prize. Formation Weindling was a banker in England in the 1980s whe ...

, a British record label * ''Babel'' (Stravinsky), a 1944 cantata

In other media

Babel (radio station) Babel is a public radio station in Uruguay, broadcasting a world and instrumental music format. It is one of the four services of Radiodifusión Nacional del Uruguay and broadcasts on 97.1 FM The following radio stations broadcast on FM frequ ...

, Uruguay * ''Babel'', a Turbo CD role-playing game released by

Nippon Telenet was a Japanese Video game developer, video game and software developer founded in October 1983 by Kazuyuki Fukushima. The company had several video game divisions including: Wolf Team, Laser Soft, Reno, Renovation Products, Riot, Commseed, and ...

Places

* Babel, Carmarthenshire, a village in Wales * Babel, Khuzestan, a village in Iran *

Babel Island The Babel Island, part of the Babel Group within the Furneaux Group, is a granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying off the east coast of Flinders Island, Tasmania, south of Victoria, Australia. The privately owned island was named by Mat ...

, Tasmania, Australia * Babel River, Alaska, United States *

Bangka Belitung The Bangka Belitung Islands ( id, Kepulauan Bangka Belitung) is a province of Indonesia. Situated off the southeastern coast of Sumatra, the province comprises two main landmasses— Bangka and Belitung—and numerous smaller islands. Bangka Beli ...

, a province in Indonesia, abbreviated Babel *

Babil Governorate Babil Governorate or Babylon Province ( ar, محافظة بابل ''Muḥāfaẓa Bābil'') is a governorate in central Iraq. It has an area of , with an estimated population of 2,065,042 people in 2018. The provincial capital is the city of Hilla ...

, in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as "Babel" *

Mount Babel (Alberta) Mount Babel is a mountain peak of the Bow Range in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The mountain can be seen from the Valley of the Ten Peaks. Mount Babel was first climbed by A Hart, Edward Oliver Wheeler, L. Wilson and H. Worsfold in 191 ...

, Canada *

Mount Babel (Quebec) Mount Babel is the highest peak of the René-Levasseur Island, at above sea-level, which is above the Manicouagan Reservoir level. It lies within the Louis-Babel Ecological Reserve in Quebec, Canada. History The mount is named after Catholic mi ...

, Canada

Science and technology

* 5808 Babelʹ, a minor planet *

Babel (protocol) The Babel routing protocol A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate with each other to distribute information that enables them to select routes between nodes on a computer network. Routers perform the traffic directing functions o ...

, a routing protocol for wired, wireless, and hybrid IP mesh networks *

Babel (transcompiler) Babel is a free and open-source JavaScript transcompiler that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ (ES6+) code into backwards-compatible JavaScript code that can be run by older JavaScript engines. It allows web developers to take advant ...

, a JavaScript transcompiler *

Babel Middleware Babel is an open source middleware system serving the scientific computing community. As a language interoperability tool, Babel enables the arbitrary mixing of software libraries written in C/C++, Fortran, Python, and Java. As a distributed com ...

, open-source middleware for scientific computing *

GPSBabel GPSBabel is a cross-platform, free software to transfer routes, tracks, and waypoint data to and from consumer GPS units, and to convert between GPS data formats. It has a command-line interface and a graphical interface for Windows, macOS, and L ...

, GPS file format conversion software *

OpenBabel Open Babel is computer software, a chemical expert system mainly used to interconvert chemical file formats. About Due to the strong relationship to informatics this program belongs more to the category cheminformatics than to molecular model ...

, open-source chemical modeling software

Other

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