This would support the story of Genesis chapter 11 regarding the incident at the Tower of Babel and its aftermath.
Some people claim that communication prior to the fall of the tower was telepathic, i.e. that that is what the story of the tower means. That might explain the thing about the woman being able to communicate with a snake...
Augustine thought that Hebrew was the first language (basing that on the idea that the descendants of Heber still spoke his language, after Babel).