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Did you know?
[edit | edit source]- ...that Old English is grammatically closer to modern German than to modern English?
- ...that Slavonic languages are mutually more similar than the German dialects?
- ...that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, has highly influenced later fictional literature worldwide? And did you know that he was also a great expert in languages, and that he has created about twenty artificial languages himself?
- ...that Esperanto is the most famous among many artificial languages? It is an auxiliary language created by Polish doctor Zamenhof, whose pseudonym was doctor Esperanto.
- ...that Tamil is the oldest surviving language in the world, still spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.