'Babel' comes from the Babylonian: 'bab' meaning gate and 'ili', meaning 'God', so it's literally "The Gate Of God". Pronunciation's hard to work out, since Babylonian's one of those dead languages and even tho' I used to know it pretty well before I blew my brain up, I learned to read it, not speak it, so yeah, can't help you with the correct version.
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