The German word 'Weltschmerz' means the pain caused by the gap between the world as it is and as it should be.

Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words still used today including 'bedroom,' 'lonely,' and 'obscene.'

Esperanto has around 2 million speakers and was invented in 1887 by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof.

Sanskrit, an ancient Indo-European language, has the most perfect grammatical structure ever analyzed.

Portmanteau words combine two words — 'breakfast + lunch = brunch,' 'smoke + fog = smog.'

There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken in the world — about half are expected to disappear by end of the century.

Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words in the English language, including 'lonely,' 'generous,' and 'assassination.'

Language is transmitted culturally, not genetically — children adopted across language communities learn the local language perfectly.

The word 'dollar' derives from the Bohemian Joachimsthal, where silver coins called 'Joachimsthaler' (thalers) were minted.