When man noticed how practical language was, he decided to name everything, and has not stopped since. So, everything has a tag, a label, a name. The picture I have chosen is a "tree" in English, "Baum" in German, "arbre" in French and Valencian, "árbol" in Spanish, "albero" in Italian... and so on and so forth... about 6,500 different names for that picture, corresponding to the 6,500 languages we have globally. Some labels for this image seem exotic: "mti" in Swahili, "drzervo" in Polish, "puno" in Tagalog... That picture of the tree will remain the same, but man has named it in 6,500 different ways. This is a trivial piece of news, but worth bearing in mind, and is more important that meets the eye.
More trivia: if each language has an average of 75,000 words, the total of vocabulary adds up to 487,500,000.-
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