Body language accounts for an estimated 55% of communication impact — tone 38%, words just 7%.

Language death is driven by economic and political power — speakers shift to more useful languages.

Some languages have no word for 'left' and 'right' — speakers always use cardinal directions (north, south, east, west).

Languages with no future tense have speakers who statistically save more money.

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

Whistled languages, like Silbo Gomero in the Canary Islands, encode full speech and are UNESCO Heritage.

Latin gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian — the Romance languages.

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

Linguist Noam Chomsky proposed that humans have an innate 'universal grammar' — a built-in capacity for language.