Meanwhile, four billion people speak languages that major AI systems do not serve well. Of roughly seven thousand living languages, about twenty are considered high-resource for AI training. Hindi, spoken by five hundred million people, is classified as low-resource. A 2025 study in Nature found that ChatGPT recognises only 10 to 20 per cent of sentences written in Hausa, a language spoken by ninety-four million people. The linguistic map of AI capability is a colonial map with a fresh coat of paint