People of all eras and times have always been fascinated by the enigma of the "Origin of Language." Various ethnicities and civilizations have their own legendary explanations of language's genesis. The many and fascinating stories about the origins of language finest represent humanity's fundamental desire to decode the unfathomable and inexplicable fact of human existence. India, America, Mesoamerica, North America, Amazonas, Brazil, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania, Polynesia, Australia, and the Andaman Islands all have their own mythology about the origins of language. The purpose of this paper is to lay out the various myths surrounding the origin of language and to demonstrate how these myths explain the mystification and confusion surrounding the enigma of language's creation. "The foundation of speech is not dreary seriousness, but simple play and youthful hilarity; the genesis of language is not to be sought in the prosaic, but in the poetic aspect of existence... When boys and lassies competed with one another to attract the attention of the other sex, when everyone sang his merriest and danced his boldest to lure a pair of eyes to cast admiring glances in his direction, I hear the laughing screams of exultation in primitive speech. "Language was born in the days of mankind's courtship," argues O. Jespersen (See Yule, 1997)