Wisdom enshrined in oral culture - of proverbs, poetry recitals and musical forms, was central to the cultures of the Indian subcontinent; but there was also a very strong and long-standing tradition of literature and religious values and legends, enshrined in multilingual texts; so erasure of Indian languages was not so easy for the British to accomplish in their colonisation of India.

It's a terrible tragedy how the Whyte supremacists ecocide, has been accompanied with the genocides of peoples and erasure of their cultures and languages.

My studies in philosophy, linguistics and anthropology revealed just how central is language to human consciousness and culture - which is why the monolingual English sought to separate children from their families, in Australasia, Canada.

Thus culturally and emotionally orphaned, they were easy prey for inculcating with Whyte supremacy and accompanying lack of confidence in themselves.

It is such a terrible loss ... for instance in one of the aboriginal languages , there are five words for the concept of 'WE'. They express subtleties of awareness of inclusion and points of view.... such emotional and ecological sophistication encoded on the conceptual and semantic level.

I hope you can do this much-needed research and help resurrect what has been lost. All good wishes Lola.