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).
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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