30 Interesting Fun Facts About Linguistics

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Language is a thing that everyone needs to express feelings, communicate, or understand others. With the existence of many languages in the world, it creates diversity one to another. In this variety, of course there are some fun and interesting facts about language.

Probably you've never heard about these 30 weird and surprising facts. That's why, there is a study called Linguistics which also takes role on collecting facts about languages. Here are 30 interesting fun facts about linguistics or language.

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Korean is the most polite language in the world. There are 7 level of politeness used in Korean language to show respect to the addressee.
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The oldest writing system still used until now is Chinese writing system. It was first used in 1200 BC. Even though it has changed a little bit, but there are still so many people that use this language.
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Turkish is seemed to be the loudest language based on a measurement in a study in 1970. Meanwhile, Tagalog speakers spoke most softly.
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The word 'OK' is the most frequently word to be spoken in the world. The fact is that most of every places know and use this word in daily life.
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'The' is number one uttered word in English language. Almost in every speech in English, it is involved.
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A study suggests that if you hadn't learned any language until the year of 13, you won't be able to learn anything afterwards. The later effect of this phenomenon may cause you to be a feral child, person that can't understand language because has been far from human contact.
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If you ask how many languages that can be learned by one human being, the most valid evidence that can tell the fact is that there is a person that can speak in 58 languages, namely Ziad Fazah, who is the most multilingual person!
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There are at least 7,000 languages exist in the world spread in open and remote places!
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Based on Wikipedia, the most spoken language in the universe is Mandarin with over 935 million speakers, followed by Spanish and English.
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Burumankok, spoken in Papua New Guinea, is the least language used in the world with only less than 300 speakers. However, in Mexico, there is a language, named Ayapaneco, unknowingly still exists or not, since the only speakers left are only two.
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English is considered to be the richest language in terms of vocabulary and grammar. It has many words compared to other languages.
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28% of territory on planet is resided by people that speak English, making it to be the most widespread language.
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Language always changes as the time goes by. That's why now there are such new words like selfie, baggravation, etc.
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Language can die. There are about 417 languages that are potentially extinct soon.
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New language can be made. For example, language in the movie Lord of The Ring, or in real life there once was made a language called Esperanto in 1887.
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Chimps are capable of learning sign language, while certain birds can mimic human's sound whilst don't know what they are saying.
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Eskimos have various words to describe snow, about 50 in approximate. It means that language grows depend on geographical area where it rises.
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Javanese is considered to be the richest language that has many words to describe stink. Up to 20 words in approximate.
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Research conducted in 2005, Papua New Guinea is resided by various people that speak 820 languages, making it to be a country that has the most languages spoken. Even so, Papua New Guinea is not wide in surface area compared to Madagascar in Africa.
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We know most language relates to each other, like English borrows some words from Greek. But, there is one language named Basque that doesn't seem to have any relation to any other language. Which means, it is an isolated language.
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Language that is used as majority most likely kills language that is least used. So, language kills each other, and it is the biggest factor why a language extincts.
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In English, the phrase "cellar door" has been cited as sample which is beautiful in terms of sound.
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Bilingualism is good for your brain, including understanding other human spoken language such as programming language.
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The filler words such as "um" or "uh" are used to give extra time or space to the speaker to add preparation for upcoming utterance that is going to be spoken.
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It is actually true that babies are able to differentiate every sound of human language.
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To read newspaper completely in China, you will need to know about 2,000 Chinese characters.
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Chinese has about 60,000 letters in alphabet. A very huge number compared to English alphabet which has only 26 letters.
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It is said that language shapes the way you think. English speakers may have different way of thinking than Russian speakers.
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The United Stats doesn't have any official language. However, English is mainly used in any official event.
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There are actually 13 sounds of how Frenches spell the letter 'o'.