Most researchers estimate that 70 to 80 percent of their time is spent not on the collecting of data but on its analysis--looking at photos, listening to recordings and transcribing them and so on.
Yet, according to a 2012 study on Scopus, the world's largest database for peer-reviewed journals, 80 percent of articles are written entirely in English.
Assuming that Vincent's planned $800,000 nest egg earns a very conservative 6 percent, that would mean $48,000 a year in proceeds (also before taxes) that he could draw on without touching any of the principal.
Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the Cherokee language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound.