The fastest spoken language is Japanese — measured at 7.84 syllables per second on average.
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The fastest spoken language is Japanese — measured at 7.84 syllables per second on average.
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Languages evolve continuously — Shakespeare's English is dramatically different from today's just 400 years later.
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The alphabet is a Greek invention — the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician consonant alphabet around 800 BC.
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About 7,000 languages are spoken in the world today — one dies roughly every two weeks.
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Wittgenstein argued that the limits of language are the limits of one's world.
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