Language and Literature library/did you know

This page is part of the School of Language and Literature, specifically a sub-page of the School of Language and Literature library.

Did you know?

 * ...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.