There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
100
Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
5
'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
236
There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
15
More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
12
The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
31
The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
14
The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
10