The dot over the lowercase letters 'i' and 'j' is called a tittle.

The English language borrows from over 350 other languages, making it one of the most linguistically diverse.

English has the most borrowed words of any language — absorbing vocabulary from over 350 languages.

The language with the most native speakers is Mandarin Chinese, followed by Spanish and English.

The longest sentence in serious literature appears in Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom!' — 1,288 words.

Sign languages are complete natural languages — they are not universal and vary by country.

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

Esperanto, invented in 1887, is the world's most widely spoken constructed language with an estimated 2 million speakers.

The word 'lethologica' describes the inability to remember the word you are trying to say.