The word 'dreamt' is the only English word that ends in 'mt.'

Whistled languages, like Silbo Gomero in the Canary Islands, encode full speech and are UNESCO Heritage.

Some languages have no word for 'left' or 'right' — speakers of Guugu Yimithirr in Australia use cardinal directions instead.

The Hawaiian language has only 13 letters — 5 vowels and 8 consonants.

The language with the most native speakers is Mandarin Chinese, followed by Spanish and English.

Languages with no future tense have speakers who statistically save more money.

The Rosetta Stone was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics because it contained the same decree in three scripts.

Noam Chomsky proposed humans have an innate 'universal grammar' — a built-in capacity for language.

Shakespeare's works have been translated into over 100 languages and are performed more than any other playwright.