There is a language called Silbo Gomero, spoken on the Canary Islands, that consists entirely of whistling.

The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters — all consonants — and became the ancestor of most Western alphabets.

Emoji are increasingly studied as a form of paralanguage — they provide emotional context to text.

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

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

The oldest written language is Sumerian, dating to around 3200 BCE.

Language diversity correlates with biodiversity — the same conditions that support species richness also support linguistic richness.

The average English speaker uses only about 20,000 words actively — but recognizes 40,000–50,000.

The longest word in English, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, was invented to be the longest word.