Papua New Guinea has the most languages of any country — over 840 living languages.

Body language can communicate emotions without spoken words.

Urdu and Hindi are mutually intelligible in speech but written in completely different scripts.

Code-switching — alternating between two languages mid-sentence — is a sophisticated skill, not a deficiency.

The English language borrows from over 350 other languages, making it one of the most linguistically diverse.

Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of one's world.

There are roughly 7,000 languages, but about 23 languages account for over half the world's speakers.

The concept of a 'dead language' is complex — Latin died as a spoken tongue but gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

Mozart could write music before he could write words — he composed his first piece at age 5.