Unknown tongues definition
Unknown tongues simply means “unknown languages”—languages that the person does not know how to speak. To speak in a “new tongue” is to simply speak a language you have not spoken before. This is the way that “languages” and “tongues” have always been used—to refer to the different languages or tongues of different peoples and countries. This is how the word “tongues” has always been used in common speech and in the Bible itself, as we can plainly see from the following scriptures in Revelation. Pentecostals try to redefine the word “tongues” as some form of ecstatic utterance that involuntarily comes out of the speaker’s mouth. But there is no basis for this whatsoever, from the Bible, from history, or from the common usage of this word.