• There are currently 7,099 different languages spoken today
  • More than half of the world’s population speak one of 23 different languages
  • The Cambodian alphabet of Khmer is the longest is in the world with 74 characters
  • Rice Krispies in the United States may go ‘snap, crackle, and pop’ but in Germany they go ‘Knisper! Knasper! Knusper’, in France they go ‘Cric! Crac! Croc’, and in Spain they go ‘Cris! Cras! Cros!’
  • 12% of all languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea
  • The Vatican boasts an ATM that operates in Latin
  • One-quarter of people on earth speak at least a few words of English
  • The world’s most translated author is Agatha Christie, but the most translated book (after the Bible) is Pinocchio