The oldest known written language dates back to Yangshao culture pottery from China, dated around 4500 BC
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The smallest alphabet is that of Rotokas, which has just 11-12 letters
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Welsh is still spoken in Patagonia, Argentina, after Welsh settlers travelled there in 1865
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Basque is the only language in Europe not known to be related to any other language
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In Japan, a man sued national broadcaster NHK for 'mental distress' due to its use of loan words borrowed from English
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The easiest language for English speakers to learn is Frisian, which is native to part of the Netherlands, as it sounds similar and has a shared history
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Esperanto was created in 1887 by Dr L Zamenhof as a language that would allow people who speak different native languages to communicate while retaining their own languages and cultural identities
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Tolkien referred to 12 artificial languages in Lord of the Rings, but only two were well developed - Quenya and Sindarin
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Eastern Siberia, Northern Australia and the Northwest Pacific Plateau in the US are hotspots for endangered languages
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Languages are dying at a rate of one per fortnight
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25% of the world's population has at least some knowledge of English
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There are 2,200 languages in Asia
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12.4% of the world's population speaks Mandarin as a first language
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The artificial Esperanto language has up to 2 million speakers, but only 1,000-2,000 people speak it natively from birth
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There are only two living Baltic languages: Latvian and Lithuanian
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The word pulveratricious means three very different things: 1. (of birds) nesting on the ground; 2. dust-colored; and 3. covered with dust
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90% of communication occurs using just 500 words
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Most countries in Europe have several regional or minority languages, some of which have official status
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The most widely used non-European languages in Europe are Arabic, Chinese and Hindi
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90% of communication occurs using just 500 words
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Russia has the highest number of languages spoken on its territory: from 130 to 200 depending on the criteria
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The separation of the Korean nations in 1953 has resulted in increasing differences among the several dialects of the Korean language, with North Koreans borrowing Russian terms while South Koreans borrow extensively from English
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"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence in American English. It is an example of homonyms and homophones creating complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity.
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The verb 'to table' has opposite meanings in the UK and US. In the UK, it means to begin considering a proposal. In the US, it means to suspend a motion.
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I.e. - meaning 'in other words' - is an abbreviation of the Latin 'id est'
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E.g. - meaning 'for example' - is an abbreviation of the Latin 'exempli gratia'
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The town name “Scheveningen” was used as a code word by Dutch resistance fighters because Germans could not pronounce it correctly
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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia refers to an irrational fear of the number 666
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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia refers to an irrational fear of the number 666
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Triskaidekaphobia is a fear of the number 13
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Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the word used to describe a fear of Friday the 13th (which some consider to be extremely unlucky)
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The most translated document: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, written by the United Nations in 1948, has been translated into 321 languages and dialects
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Portuguese is the 5th most spoken native language in the world and the 3rd in Europe
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Portuguese is the 2nd most spoken language in Latin America (after Spanish)
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English is the official language of 27 non-sovereign entities including the UN, the EU, the IOC, NATO, ASEAN, NAFTA, and the Commonwealth of Nations
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French is the official or preferred language of many international organizations, since France is one of the four largest industrial economies in the world and the second largest agricultural producer
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1 in every 10 books published worldwide is in German
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Career-wise, bilingualism is a strong asset and it is said that in certain fields, bilingual candidates can earn up to 20% more than monolinguals
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Career-wise, bilingualism is a strong asset and it is said that in certain fields, bilingual candidates can earn up to 20% more than monolinguals
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When Ben Yehuda brought back Hebrew and modernized it, he had to switch up how tenses were used biblically in order to standardize them.
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Learning a foreign language has been shown to have benefits from an academic as well as an information retention point of view. Improvements include critical thinking skills, creativity and flexibility of the mind
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South Africa holds a Guinness World record for having the most official languages in the world, with 11
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Nearly every African country was at one time a colony, therefore many of the population speak English, French or Portuguese as their first or second language
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Danish was the official language of Norway until about 1830 and of Iceland until 1944
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In Albania, shaking your head means ‘yes’ whilst nodding means ‘no’
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There was only one code during World War II that was never broken by the enemy and was used by the US Army. Navajo soldiers, called Codetalkers, developed a radio code based on their native language. It was the only way US soldiers on the battlefiel
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Besides Wales, Argentina is the only other country where Welsh is spoken by a significant minority thanks to settlers that inhabited Patagonia nearly 200 years ago
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840 (almost 1/7) of all the languages on Earth are spoken in 1 country…Papua New Guinea
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The Silbo language of La Gomera off the coast of Spain consists entirely of whistles
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There are 2,400 languages classified as being ‘endangered’
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Q is the only letter that does not occur in any of the US state names
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At 45 letters, "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," a lung disease, is the longest word in English
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"Euouae," a medieval music term, is the longest word in English that contains only vowels. It’s also the word with the most consecutive vowels
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"Euouae," a medieval music term, is the longest word in English that contains only vowels. It’s also the word with the most consecutive vowels
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Irish has no words for "yes" and "no" - the answer to a question contains a repetition of the verb, either with or without a negative particle
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1 out of every 8 letters written in English is an E
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Somalia is the only African country in which the entire population speaks the same language - Somali
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The shortest -ology is oology, the scientific study of eggs
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In written English, only one letter in every 510 is a Q
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Schoolmaster is an anagram of “the classroom"
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If you were to write out every number in full (one, two, three, four...), you wouldn’t use a single letter B until you reached one billion
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Only two modern English words end in “-gry”: “angry” and “hungry" - unless you count the addition of "hangry"
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The dot above the letters “i” and “j” is called a superscript dot
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"Typewriter” is one of the longest common words you can type on the top row of a typewriter
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The oldest English word that is still in use is ‘town’
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The first English dictionary was written in 1755
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The word ‘lol’ was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011
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The most commonly used noun in English is ‘time’
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The most common adjective used in English is ‘good’
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A text that deliberately excludes a particular letter of the alphabet is called a lipogram
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About 100 languages rely on the Roman alphabet. Used by roughly two billion people, it's the world's most popular script
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Goddessship is the only word in the English language with a triple letter
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The history of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt. By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel (o
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Famous pangrams include: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."
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A sentence which contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet is called a pangram
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The longest word in English which doesn't use the letter E is floccinaucinihilipilification
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1 out of every 8 letters written is an E
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The word "rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel
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If you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same
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The 26 letters of the English alphabet make up more than 40 distinct sounds
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Despite no discernible relationship between English and Mbabaram, the word for 'dog' is the same in both languages
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Irish has no words for "yes" and "no" - the answer to a question contains a repetition of the verb, either with or without a negative particle
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Semantic satiation (semantic saturation) refers to the repetition of a word or phrase until it temporarily loses meaning for the listener/reader
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Elephants have voices that are different for each individual, in just the same way that humans do
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Koko the gorilla, born in 1971 at San Francisco Zoo, learned to sign over 1,000 words and was able to competently communicate with her trainers
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Cats only ‘meow’ when communicating with humans - they purr and hiss to communicate with other cats
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Baby chickens can cheep before they hatch: about 24 hours before hatching they cheep in response to the mother hen's clucks
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Whales and dolphins have regional accents, just as humans do
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Whales and dolphins have regional accents, just as humans do
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Bilinguals recover faster from strokes than monolinguals
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“Go!” is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English
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Approximately one new word is added to the English language every two hours and around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every year
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A polyglot is a person who can write and speak several different languages
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German and French were voted the best languages for graduates to learn to help enhance their job prospects
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Agatha Christie is the world’s most translated author
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80% of African languages have no written form
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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words
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You speak about 4,800 words a day
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The language which has won the most Oscars for Best Foreign Film is Italian (there have been 12 winning films in Italian)
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Languages have existed since about 100,000BC
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There is a language in Mexico called Ayapaneco that is in danger of dying out because its last two remaining speakers refused to talk to one another (though they are now on speaking terms and have even opened a school to try and teach the language t
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The United Nations has 6 official languages – Arabic, Manadarin, Russian, English, French and Spanish
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The European Union has 24 official languages
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More than 70% of all the home pages on the Internet are in English
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Silbo is a variation of Spanish used to communicate over long distances in the mountains, it consists entirely of whistles
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Tolstoy’s original text for War And Peace in Russian and French contains about 460,000 words. The English translation has about 560,000.
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After The Bible, the most translated books are ‘The Little Prince’ and ‘Pinocchio’
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The Khumer language from Cambodia has the longest alphabet, with 74 letters
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Cryptophasias is the private language developed between twins
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There is a language in Botswana that consists mainly of five types of clicks
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You can us an ATM in Latin in Vatican City
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The pope tweets in nine languages
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The bible is available in 2,454 languages
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George R.R. Martin, in his A Song of Ice and Fire book series, established the nomadic horse-rearing Dothraki people. In the books Martin included very few words of the Dothraki language, but for the HBO television series David Peterson of the Langu
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There is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet published in Klingon
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Star Trek fans have used Klingon to conduct marriage ceremonies and write songs
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The Klingon Language Institute has a quarterly journal dedicated to the fictional Klingon languge
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The fictional language Klingon was created by linguist Marc Okrand as the language of the warrior Klingon race on the TV show Star Trek
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Due to the influx of migrants and refugees, Europe has become largely multilingual. In London alone some 300 languages are spoken (Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish, Berber, Hindi, Punjabi, etc.).
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There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet
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The word "girl" appears only once in the Bible
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"Polish" is the only word in the English language that when capitalized is changed from a noun or a verb to a nationality
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Honorificabilitudinitatibus, at 27 letters long, is the longest word consisting strictly of alternating consonants and vowels. It is the dative and ablative plural of the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours"
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The little dot above lower case ‘i’s and ‘j’s is called a tittle
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In Germany, Rice Krispies don’t go ‘snap, crackle and pop’ - they go ‘Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!'
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The language in which a government conducts business is the official language of that country
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The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France. It is not related to any other language in the world. It has an extremely complicated word structure and vocabulary
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No words in English rhyme with: "month," "orange," "silver," or "purple"
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William Shakespeare created many of the words in the English language including birthplace, blushing, torture, circumstantial, excitement, dwindle, and jaded
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"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters
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The English word 'infant' comes from the Latin word 'infans', meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless"
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By the age of 18 months a child usually has a vocabulary of 50 to 150 words
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The most common first words are ?mama? or ?dada?. No matter the language, the first words are usually mum or dad
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Children usually say their first words between nine and 18 months old
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There are hundreds of sign language dialects in use around the world. Each culture has developed its own form of sign language to be compatible with the language spoken in that country.
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American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most widely used language in the U.S., after English and Spanish.
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The United States has more Spanish speakers than Spain
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Almost is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order
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The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
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Include more from no. 16 onwards from here: http://edl.ecml.at/LanguageFun/LanguageFacts/tabid/1859/Default.aspx
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Countries can sing in any language in the Eurovision Song Contest, even made up languages
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Most European languages are either Germanic, Romance or Slavic
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Languages can have upwards of 50,000 words, but everyday conversation uses just a few hundred
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At least 50% of the world's population is bilingual
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Europe is home to around 225 indigenous languages, which account for just 3% of the world's total
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25% of the world's population has at least some knowledge of the English language
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Although English is most commonly spoken there, the US does not have an official national language
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Babies exposed to different languages in early life find it easier to learn languages when they grow up
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South Africa is the country with the largest number of official languages (it has 11)
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The Lord of the Rings includes an impressive 12 imaginary languages
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50% of educational time in Luxembourg is devoted to learning languages (English, German and French)
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There are around 50,000 characters in the Chinese language but you only need to know about 2,000 to read a newspaper
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Chinese grammar is free of tenses, genders, cases and plurals, making it surprisingly easy to grasp
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Written Chinese does not have an alphabet, with characters representing sounds. Instead, it has a system of characters that represent meaning
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In Japanese, there are at least 20 different ways to say "sorry"
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"Mamihlapinatapai" is considered the most succinct word in Yaghan and the hardest to translate. It roughly translates to "a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves."
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The English dictionary from 1932 to 1940 included a misprinted word which had no definition, 'Dord'. ?Dord? became known as a ?ghost word?.
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There is a town called Okay, Oklahoma. On maps it is written as Okay, OK
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The first recorded use of the letter x being used to represent a kiss was in 1763
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Bookkeeper and bookkeeping are the only unhyphenated English words with three consecutive double letters
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Angry and hungry are the only two current English words that end in 'gry'
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SWIMS is an ambigram and reads the same even when turned upside down
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Ghost words are words that appear in dictionaries due to printing errors and do not actucally have a meaning
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In certain roles, multilingual employees can enjoy up to 20% higher wages than their monolingual colleagues
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Children of bilingual couples tend to have better memories and heightened intelligence than children of monolingual couples
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Language-learning improves memory, aptitude, attention span and multi-tasking abilities
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Bilingual speakers are less likely to suffer dementia as early as mononlinguists
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Chinese and Arabic are considered to be the hardest languages to learn
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Language learning is easiest up to about the age of 12, with age 7 being the peak time to learn
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2,500 of the world's languages are in danger of extinction, according to UNESCO
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Learning a second language can physically increase the size of your brain
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The United Nations has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
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More than 50% of all languages have no written form
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Only one English word has five consecutive vowels: queueing
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All international pilots communicate in English when they are in the sky, wherever they are from
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The longest word in English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (it's a type of lung disease)
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog? is a pangram - it uses every letter in the English alphabet
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Tomedes
E' is the most used letter in English, but more words start with 's' than with any other letter
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