In Ubang, Nigeria, men and women grow up speaking different words for the same things. Boys shift from the “female language” to the “male language” around age 10.
But this incredible linguistic tradition is fading fast.
📚 Schools teach in English, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa.

Where do biases lead us?

In 1543, Copernicus revealed that Earth moves around the Sun. His idea was resisted, called heresy. Giordano Bruno was burnt, Galileo silenced. It took nearly 200 years- and countless discoveries - for humanity to finally accept the heliocentric truth.

Case study on the metaphor of the “tree” across cultures: researchers demonstrate how AI-generated outputs align with Euro-American taxonomical metaphors while suppressing to retrieve alternative symbolic models (e.g. Iranian cosmo-trees or relational plant epistemologies from Indigenous traditions)

Human languages became diverse for the same reasons cultures did - migration, isolation, innovation, identity, and adaptation.
Linguists estimate over 12,000 languages may have existed throughout the history.
Today, about 7,000 languages are still spoken - many are endangered.

The language is
the medium carrying reality into consciousness, allowing us to categorize, analyze& reflect.
And ontologies? They are true reflections of what exists objectively - yet each depicts only a part. Every culture, every language, offers its own ontology: a fragment of the greater whole.

When AI speaks in many languages but thinks in only one. A linguist came across a viral post on TikTok “5 Yorùbá Sayings That Raised Us.”
Not one of them was real. The content was likely AI-generated & culturally hallucinated.We all need to collaborate to create multicultural, multi-cognitive AI

🧠💬 Can the language you’re addressed in affect your economic decisions?
Yes, now it’s backed by experiments with bilingual speakers.
🕰“Strong-FTR languages lead to more precise, more distant futures - and more present-biased decisions.”

☀️ Is the Sun He, She… or Something Else Entirely? Masculine Gender Sun :
Spanish, French, Italian, Hindi, Portuguese, Greek...
Feminine Gender Sun :
German, Arabic, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian...
Neuter Gender Sun:
Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Finnish, Hungarian...
Ur sun?

🌍 “In the beginning was the Word…”
Across ancient civilizations, the spoken word wasn’t just sound- it was power. In sacred texts and oral traditions, it became the tool of creation, transformation, and connection to the divine.