The first printed novel in the English language is 'Pamela' by Samuel Richardson (1740) — written as letters.

Orcas have unique dialects.

The grammar of most languages encodes social hierarchy — languages like Korean have distinct speech levels for different relationships.

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

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

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

Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words still used in English today, including 'bedroom,' 'lonely,' and 'generous.'

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

Wittgenstein argued the limits of language are the limits of one's world.