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

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

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

Mandarin Chinese is the language with the most native speakers at about 920 million.

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

The United States has no official language — English is the dominant language but is not legally designated.

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

Sign languages are complete, independent languages — American Sign Language and British Sign Language are mutually unintelligible.

Sign languages are complete natural languages — they are not universal and vary by country.