Quote by Nicholas Ostler

“The world speaks many languages,”

— Paulo Coelho

“so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world”

— Lucille Clifton

“If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt about what…

— Andrew Dalby

“It takes more than language to know what language can know.”

— Barry Allen

“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.”

— Yurii Ivchenko

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

“Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the…

— Robert Lane Greene

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

— Eddie Izzard

“Sometimes just being able to write only a few hundred words as opposed to a few thousand is just fine. As long as they're…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup