Introduction -- The first language morphs into six thousand new ones -- The six thousand languages develop into clusters of sublanguages -- The thousands of dialects mix with one another -- Some languages are crushed to powder but rise again as new ones -- The thousands of dialects of thousands of languages all developed far beyond the call of duty -- Some languages get genetically altered and frozen -- Most of the world's languages went extinct -- Epilogue: "Extra, extra! The language of Adam and Eve!".