Language
August 6, 2025, 3:36 PM
From page 14: “Throughout the world, ancient, indigenous languages are disappearing as quickly as old-growth forests...of the three to six thousand (3000-6000) languages spoken in the world today (2003), eighty to ninety percent (80%-90%) are spoken by indigenous people.”
August 6, 2025, 3:34 PM
From page 14: “No matter what methodology the researcher uses, the transmission of ideas from one culture to another is always limited by his or her language. There is an element of fiction when a foreign culture is translated into an English narrative.”