The Khmer script, used for the Cambodian language, has the largest alphabet in the world with 74 letters.

Linguistic relativity experiments show speakers of languages with more color words distinguish shades faster.

The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish' in English — its meaning gradually softened over centuries.

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

Languages evolve continuously — Shakespeare's English is dramatically different from today's just 400 years later.

All human languages have nouns and verbs — but many lack adjectives, adverbs, or other categories found in English.

Machu Picchu was never discovered by Spanish conquistadors — it was abandoned around 1572 and remained unknown to the outside world until 1911.

The sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' contains every letter of the English alphabet.

The word 'dollar' derives from the Bohemian Joachimsthal, where silver coins called 'Joachimsthaler' (thalers) were minted.