There are over 7,000 languages spoken worldwide.

Mandarin Chinese has the most native speakers.

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters.

Sign languages are full languages with grammar and vocabulary.

The word ‘alphabet’ comes from the first two Greek letters: alpha and beta.

Some languages are written right to left, like Arabic and Hebrew.

English is the most widely studied second language.

Many English words come from Latin and Greek roots.

Languages can have gendered nouns, like French and Spanish.

There are languages with only a handful of speakers left.