Body language can communicate emotions without spoken words.

English has the largest vocabulary of any language — the Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 words.

The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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

The Battle of Hastings lasted just one day — October 14, 1066 — but permanently changed English culture and language.

There are roughly 7,000 languages, but about 23 languages account for over half the world's speakers.

All human languages have nouns and verbs — but many lack adjectives or other categories found in English.

Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar and syntax, not just manual versions of spoken language.

The longest palindrome in English is a sentence: 'A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.'