Orca (killer whale) pods have distinct dialects — different groups use different calls that don't overlap.

Chimpanzees have shown the ability to learn sign language.

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

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The most spoken language is Mandarin Chinese — with over 1.1 billion native speakers.

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English has the largest vocabulary of any language — the Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 words.

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The alphabet is a Greek innovation — the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician consonant alphabet around 800 BC.

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Mozart could write music before he could write words — he composed his first piece at age 5.

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The word 'lethologica' describes the inability to remember the word you are trying to say.

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Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of one's world.

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