Inuit languages do not have unusually many words for snow — this is a persistent linguistic myth.

Body language can communicate emotions without spoken words.

The printing press led to standardized spelling — before it, words were spelled however the writer chose.

Many Native American languages contain single words that would require whole sentences to express in English.

The Basque language has no known relatives anywhere in the world — it is a true language isolate.

Linguistic relativity experiments show speakers of languages with more color words distinguish shades faster.

Sign languages are complete, independent languages — American Sign Language and British Sign Language are mutually unintelligible.

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

The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphs.