Trivia about the English language and word origins

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There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.

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Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language - 823 words without a period