- At the UN level, only 6 languages are considered official languages: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish
-The inhabitants of Papua New Guinea speak almost 700 different languages. /15% of all world languages/
- The letter "O" is considered the oldest letter
- In Chinese iconography, "difficult and unpleasant" is represented by two women under the same roof.
- The Khmer alphabet has 72 letters, while Bougainville has only 11 letters
- In Chinese, the two words "tea" and "energy" are spelled the same
- The longest word in the English language without vowels - "rhythms"
- Eskimos pronounce "snow" in 20 different ways
- The oldest word in the English language - "town"
- There are more than 600,000 words in the English language
- American President B. Franklin found 200 words with the same meaning in the word "drunk".
- In ancient Egypt, apricots were called "eggs of the sun".