Humans have long been puzzled by the existence of different languages. A long time ago, people took guesses or made up stories to explain this. You might know the tale of the Tower of Babel (have a ...

Google uses the same search algorithms for most languages, but there are certain cases where a language requires a different algorithm to interpret the queries. This is stated by Google’s Search ...

WHY? is our attempt to answer all the questions every little kid asks. Do you have a question? Send it to why@mentalfloss.com. Did you know there are about 7000 languages in the world today? That’s a ...

It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people. Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages and 46 ...