即使在热带地区，语言的多样性也有很大的差异。

Even within the tropics, language diversity varies widely.

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希尔和斯派塞认为，“民族国家”一词模糊了国家内部文化和语言的多样性，更确切地说，这些国家可以被称为“征服国家”。

The term "nation-state", Hill and Spicer argue, blurs the internal cultural and linguistic multiplicity of states that could more precisely be called "conquest states".

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这种数字名称的多样性也可以在一些广泛使用的语言中看到，比如日语。

This diversity of number names can also be found in some widely used languages such as Japanese.

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So how are we to account for the diversification of languages, the spread of different ethnic linguistic groups throughout the lands of the earth if we all come from one common creative moment, one common ancestor?

所以，如果我们都起源于同一个时刻，来源于,同一个祖先，那又要怎样解释语言的多样性，怎样解释,使用不同语言的族群遍布地球上的所有土地,这一现象呢？

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