The Sumerian language died as a spoken tongue around 2000 BC but continued as a liturgical language for centuries.

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

The concept of a 'dead language' is complex — Latin died as a spoken tongue but gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

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

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

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

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

The fastest spoken language is Japanese — measured at 7.84 syllables per second on average.

Urdu and Hindi are mutually intelligible in speech but written in completely different scripts.