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It was first suggested in 1979 that languages ancestral to English and to Latvian (both Indo-European) split c. 3500 B.C. According to researchers completed in 1989, about 40 words of a pre-Indo-European substratum survive in English, among them apple, bad, gold and tin.
Source: Guinness Book of Records, Bantam Books (1992)
Rasmus Christian Rask (November 22, 1787 - November 14, 1832), Danish scholar and philologist, was born at Brandekilde in the island of Funen or Fyn in Denmark. He studied at the University of Copenhagen, and at once showed remarkable talent for the acquisition of languages. By 1822 he was master of no less than twenty-five languages and dialects, is stated to have studied twice as many, and is known historically as one of the greatest linguists ever.
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Coffee and Language (2001): directed and written by J. P. Allen and starring Chopper Bernet and Janis DeLucia Allen. Tagline: Can you fall in love on the page? Plot Summary: A man falls deeply in love with a novelist that he's never met. He finds her at a coffeehouse and, despite her resistance, tells a mysterious and passionate story. Coffee and Language is a drama about the risk of telling everything.
Source: IMDb
Chippewa, the North American Indian language of Minnesota, has up to 6,000 verb forms; Haida, another North American Indian language, has 70 prefixes; Tabassaran, a language of Daghestan, uses 48 noun cases, and Innuit uses 63 forms of the present tense, and simple nouns have as many as 252 inflections.
Source: Guinness Book of Records, Bantam Books (1992)
Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published the Unua Libro in 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding.
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Foreign Language by Anberlin
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A different language is a different vision of life. (Federico Fellini)
A language . . . is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. (Joseph Brodsky)
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. (Gaston Bachelard)
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? (Russell Hoban)
All true language is incomprehensible,/ Like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. (Antonin Artaud)
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change. (Miguel de Unamuno)
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. (Robert Benchley)
England and America are two countries separated by the same language. (George Bernard Shaw)
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Most languages: Papua New Guinea has, because of its many isolated valleys, the greatest concentration of separate languages in the world, with more than 10 percent of the world’s total of 4,000-5,000.
Source: Guinness Book of Records, Bantam Books (1992)
You are as many a person as languages you know. (Armenian )
God knows what will happen to women who drink wine, girls that speak old languages, and suns that set too early. (Breton )
As long as a language lives, the people will not perish. (Czech)
As the man is, so is his language. (Danish)
The echo knows all languages. (Finnish)
Better wise language than well combed hair. (Icelandic)
You must answer the devil in his own language. (Indian)
Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art. (Iranian)
Who knows the language is at home everywhere. (Dutch)
Love understands all languages. (Romanian)
The eyes have one language everywhere. (Romanian)
Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect. (Russian)
Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses. (Spanish)
Source: Creative Proverbs
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