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

Languages with no future tense have speakers who save more money — possibly because they don't distinguish future from present as strongly.

Latin gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian — the Romance languages.

There is no word in English for the back of the knee.

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

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

All human languages have nouns and verbs — but many lack adjectives or other categories found in English.

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

The word 'dollar' derives from the Bohemian Joachimsthal, where silver coins called 'Joachimsthaler' (thalers) were minted.