There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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