There is no word in the English language that rhymes with 'orange,' 'silver,' 'purple,' or 'month.'

Fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Morse code is still in use in aviation and amateur radio today.

Jazz improvisation activates the prefrontal cortex's language areas — musicians effectively 'speak' through their instruments.

Tonal languages like Mandarin use pitch to distinguish meaning — Cantonese has 6–9 tones.

Some languages have words for concepts with no equivalent in English — the Japanese 'komorebi' means sunlight filtering through leaves.

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

The longest word in the English language in a major dictionary is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' at 45 letters.

The Pirahã language of the Amazon has no words for numbers beyond 'one,' 'two,' and 'many.'