It is similar, but not the same as, xenoglossy and xenolalia.

This form of "speaking in tongues" is known as xenoglossy.

There is no scientific evidence that xenoglossy is an actual phenomenon.

Thomason concluded "the linguistic evidence is too weak to provide support for the claims of xenoglossy."

Stevenson claimed there were a handful of cases that suggested evidence of xenoglossy.

Sarah Thomason has also criticized alleged cases of xenoglossy from a professional point of view as a linguist.

Xenoglossy: A Review and Report of a Case.

Xenoglossy The alleged writing or speaking in a language that is unknown to the individual speaking or writing it.

The Christian newspaper Dagen published Fossmo's experience of xenoglossy.

The term xenoglossy was ostensibly coined by French parapsychologist Charles Richet.

More recent claims of xenoglossy have come from reincarnation researchers who have alleged that individuals were able to recall a language spoken in a past life.

Gorenfeld took Harris to task for defending some of the findings of paranormal investigations into areas such as reincarnation and xenoglossy.

Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy.

Glossolalia (and especially the idiom "speaking in tongues") also sometimes refers to xenoglossy, the putative speaking of a natural language previously unknown to the speaker.

Many specific doctrines taught at Azusa, such as glossolalia, are still taught today, as opposed to Parham's xenoglossy.

A Pentecostal believer in a spiritual experience may vocalize fluent, unintelligible utterances (glossolalia) or articulate a natural language previously unknown to them (xenoglossy).

Thomason, Sarah G. "Xenoglossy".

When he awoke he was suffering from amnesia and reportedly spoke perfect English, a sudden and unexplained knowledge of English, a paranormal phenomenon known as xenoglossy.

Stories of xenoglossy are found in the Bible, and contemporary claims of xenoglossy have been made by parapsychologists and reincarnation researchers such as Ian Stevenson.

The psychologist David Lester has written Stevenson's subjects made grammatical mistakes, mispronounced words and did not show a wide vocabulary of words in foreign language; thus cannot be considered evidence for xenoglossy.

In 2007, Australian administrator Gilbert Cangy reported receiving the gift of unlearned human languages (xenoglossy), when in the Vanuatuan island Ambrym, local Bislama speakers understood his English presentations.

Prof. William Frawley in a review for Stevenson's Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy (1984) wrote that he was too uncritically accepting of a paranormal interpretation of the cases.

Adventists more often limit it to the ability to speak unlearned human languages, or "xenoglossy"; and have generally rejected the form of tongues practised by many charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, described as ecstatic speech or a "personal prayer language".

Sarah Thomason also has an interest in debunking linguistic pseudoscience, and has collaborated with publications such as The Skeptical Inquirer, The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal and American Speech, in regards to claims of xenoglossy.

He claimed that Seymour had corrupted the teaching of tongue-speech - Parham believed that the spoken tongues had to be a recognizable human language (xenoglossy), while Seymour's theology allowed for a divine language that could not be understood by human ears (glossolalia).