The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.

The development of language allowed humans to coordinate across groups of hundreds — impossible for other primates.

Fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Children raised bilingually from birth process both languages in the same brain regions — unlike adults who learn a second language.

The first printed novel in the English language is 'Pamela' by Samuel Richardson (1740) — written as letters.

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

The Phoenicians created the world's first alphabetic writing system, the ancestor of most modern alphabets.

Code-switching — alternating between two languages mid-sentence — is a sophisticated linguistic skill, not a deficiency.

The world's shortest alphabet, Rotokas of Papua New Guinea, has only 12 letters.