“(tongues in the Bible were an actual language)”
No one knows what the “tongues of angels” sounds like but they must exist if Paul mentioned them(when speaking of the importance of love(charity in some translations). I know of a case where a Jewish person, versed in Hebrew had been visiting a Pentecostal congregation and heard glorious praises to God being offered up in Hebrew. Real languages can often be heard in such Pentecostal or Charismatic services. The issue becomes where languages are spoken and there is no one to interpret...Paul stated it was better at that point for those who had been given tongues to pray in those languages privately so that “there would be no confusion”.
“No one knows what the “tongues of angels” sounds like but they must exist if Paul mentioned them(when speaking of the importance of love(charity in some translations)”
More than likely he was using a metaphor for eloquent speech. As Barnes says in his commentary, “The language of angels here seems to be used to denote the highest power of using language, or of the most elevated faculty of eloquence and speech. It is evidently derived from the idea that the angels are “superior” in all respects to human beings; that they must have endowments in advance of all which man can have.”
But this is just a pitiful explanation for why people only hear stories about other people speaking in actual languages, though they never do it themselves, and why they speak no actual language at all when they practice the “gift”. If what you were doing was speaking a language, it would have some observable syntax, certain set patterns. What we see in tongue-speak is actually just glossolalia, not the language of alleged angels, or Hebrew, or Japanese, or some obscure language in Africa, simply waiting to be translated by someone with the proper gift.
I’ve experimented with this myself, by the way, speaking false tongues to get a interpretation, and this has never failed.
By the way, I’ve heard that Hebrew story, or something quite like it. You’re more than welcome to provide a transcript of your tongue-speech, however, and with any luck I might be able to recognize it, or someone else will, for whatever language it may be. Provided it isn’t the convenient Angelic language. In which case I still have old transcripts I made of mine, and we can compare to see if it’s the same Angel language, or maybe a dialect like in the northern part of heaven, or something.
At a healing Mass the priest was laying hands on a friend of mine and praying when all of a sudden, he was speaking in tongues.
It happens.