Babel

Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon 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
• Babel, a 1969 novel by Alan Burns
• Babel, 2016, by Zygmunt Bauman and Ezio Mauro
• Babel, 2018, about linguistics by Gaston Dorren
• Babel-17, a 1966 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany
• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, a 2022 novel by R. F. Kuang

Periodicals

• Babel (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
• 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), a neutrally aligned planet in the Star Trek universe
• "Babel One", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• "Journey to Babel", an episode of Star Trek (original series)

Other uses in film and television

• Babel (1999 film), directed by Gérard Pullicino
• Babel (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
• "Babel", an episode of Batman Beyond
• "The Sausages of Babel", Dutch TV-presenting trio

Music

Albums

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

Songs

• "Babel" (song), the title track of the album Babel by Mumford & Sons
• "Babel", from the album Heligoland by Massive Attack

Other uses in music

• Babel Label, a British record label
• Babel (Stravinsky), a 1944 cantata

In other media

• Babel (radio station), Uruguay
• Babel, a Turbo CD role-playing game released by Nippon Telenet

Places

• Babel, Carmarthenshire, a village in Wales
• Babel, Khuzestan, a village in Iran
• Babel Island, Tasmania, Australia
• Babel River, Alaska, US
• Bangka Belitung, a province in Indonesia, abbreviated Babel
• Babil Governorate, in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as "Babel"
• Mount Babel (Alberta), Canada
• Mount Babel (Quebec), Canada

Science and technology

• 5808 Babelʹ, a minor planet
• Babel (protocol), a routing protocol for wired, wireless, and hybrid IP mesh networks
• Babel (transcompiler), a JavaScript transcompiler
• GPSBabel, GPS file format conversion software
• OpenBabel, open-source chemical modeling software

Other

• Babel (restaurant), in Budapest, Hungary
• Babel (surname)
• Babels, a volunteer translators network
• Bobole, a Coahuiltecan tribe, may be spelled Babel

See also

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