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

Body language accounts for 55% of communication impact, tone for 38%, and actual words for only 7%.

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Sign languages are complete, natural languages with their own grammar — they are not universal and vary by country.

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Aztec markets like Tlatelolco impressed Spanish conquistadors — they rivaled the best markets in Europe.

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The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I Ran the Zoo' in 1950.

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Tone languages require the brain to process pitch as both music and language simultaneously.

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Inuit languages do not have unusually many words for snow — this is a persistent linguistic myth.

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The language with the most native speakers is Mandarin Chinese, followed by Spanish and English.

Fact #6192 · Language

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

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