This Qal participle describes speaking in an unintelligible or foreign language, appearing in Psalm 114:1 to characterize the Egyptian language from Israel's perspective: "a people of foreign tongue." The verb suggests talking indistinctly or in a way that cannot be understood. Later Hebrew uses derivatives for foreign language or foreigner. To Israelite ears, Egyptian speech sounded like incomprehensible babbling. Spanish "lengua extraña" (strange tongue) and German "foreign tongue" both capture this sense of linguistic alienness.