There are more English speakers in China than in the United States.

Txting and internet slang follow consistent grammatical patterns — linguists study them as natural language change.

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

Shakespeare's works have been translated into over 100 languages and are performed more than any other playwright.

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

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

Constructed languages (conlangs) like Tolkien's Elvish are linguistically complete — with grammar, vocabulary, and literature.

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

There are no true synonyms — words with similar meanings always differ in connotation or register.