The shortest complete sentence using every letter of the alphabet is 'The five boxing wizards jump quickly.'

Jazz improvisation activates the brain's language areas — musicians effectively 'speak' through instruments.

There are languages with no word for specific colors — some languages group blue and green as one color.

Ancient Egyptians distinguished between the spoken language and written hieroglyphics — they used a separate everyday script.

Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar and syntax, not just manual versions of spoken language.

Some languages mark grammatical distinctions English lacks — such as whether the speaker knows something directly or by report.

Latin gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian — the Romance languages.

Language death is driven by economic and political power — speakers shift to more useful languages.

The word 'set' has the most definitions in the English language — over 430 in the Oxford English Dictionary.