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

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

Languages evolve continuously — Shakespeare's English is dramatically different from today's just 400 years later.

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

Apes can learn sign language.

The @ symbol is called 'arroba' in Spanish and Portuguese, meaning a unit of weight.

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

Jazz improvisation activates the brain's language areas — musicians effectively 'speak' through instruments.

Ancient Egyptians distinguished between the spoken language and written hieroglyphics — they used a separate everyday script.