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

The word 'disaster' comes from Italian 'disastro' — 'bad star' — reflecting ancient beliefs about celestial influence on fate.

The Hawaiian language has only 13 letters — 5 vowels and 8 consonants.

Creole languages form when children of pidgin speakers create a fully structured native language.

The word 'serendipity' was coined in 1754 by Horace Walpole — from an old name for Sri Lanka.

Tonal languages like Mandarin use pitch to distinguish meaning — Cantonese has 6–9 tones.

'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' contains every letter of the English alphabet.

The word 'goodbye' is a contraction of 'God be with ye.'

The word 'emoji' is Japanese for 'picture character' — e (picture) + moji (character).