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

Papua New Guinea has over 800 distinct languages — the most linguistically diverse country on Earth.

Fact #4759 · Language

The Basque language has no known relatives anywhere in the world — it is a true language isolate.

Fact #6012 · Language

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

Fact #8441 · Language

The word 'set' has over 430 definitions in some English dictionaries — the most of any word.

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There are roughly 7,000 languages, but about 23 languages account for over half the world's speakers.

Fact #8431 · Language

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

Fact #5605 · Language

The English word 'war' derives from the Old High German 'werra,' meaning strife or confusion.

Fact #4672 · Language

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

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