• There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition, there are more than 7,000 dialects.

• The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France.

• All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English.

• Somalia is the only African country in which the entire population speaks the same language, Somali.

• The language in which a government conducts business is the official language of that country.

• Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions!

• "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

• No word in the English language rhymes with"month".

• The language of a society changes slowly but steadily with the result that an educated person will not be able to read or understand words in his language written 500 years ago.

• It has been estimated that the number of actively spoken languages in the world today is about 6,000.

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