There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken on Earth today, and one goes extinct roughly every two weeks.
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There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken on Earth today, and one goes extinct roughly every two weeks.
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Languages evolve continuously — Shakespeare's English is dramatically different from today's just 400 years later.
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The Basque language has no known relatives anywhere in the world — it is a true language isolate.
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The word 'set' has 430 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary — the most of any English word.
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The word 'quarantine' comes from Italian 'quarantina' — meaning 40 days — the period ships were isolated during plague.
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The English word 'war' derives from the Old High German 'werra,' meaning strife or confusion.
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Creole languages form when children of pidgin speakers create a fully structured native language.
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Languages evolve continuously — Shakespeare's English is dramatically different from today's just 400 years later.
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