1840Indian rebirth

"My own words..." Yutian sighed, "I have also considered it, but I feel unable to start. Not everyone is Sequoia."

Sequoyah was a Cherokee and the creator of the Cherokee writing. He also visited various tribes in an attempt to create a writing that could be used by all tribes, but this was obviously impossible.

In the end, this pioneer in the cause of Indian writing died of illness while traveling around, and died regretfully.

Ma Shao was silent for a while, seemingly still hesitating, but finally made up his mind and said, "I have some ideas."

When I heard this on a rainy day, I couldn't help but be stunned.

However, he seemed to trust Ma Shao very much, so he did not question it, but asked directly with some expectation: "What's the idea?"

Ma Shao stood up and took out a few pieces of white paper and a quill, and then started writing on the paper.

He first wrote down 26 English letters, and then wrote some combinations of them, such as "zh", "ch", "eng", "an"...

Yes, it is the "Hanyu Pinyin Scheme" used by the New China in later generations.

If the Indians wanted to develop, writing was indispensable, but Mashao was not a linguist and did not even have any knowledge of linguistics, so it was impossible to create writing independently.

He had only one idea for creating words, which was to start with his mother tongue, to be precise, the mother tongue of his previous life, Chinese.

Chinese is a mature language, and it is also a relatively difficult language to learn.

Therefore, although Mashao thought about introducing Chinese to the Apaches more than once, when he thought about it rationally, he realized that it was simply not feasible.

It must be more difficult for Indians to learn Chinese than for Chinese to learn English, and Mashao himself is an example of failure when it comes to learning foreign languages.

If the Chinese language is really fully introduced and implemented for ten years, the literacy rate of Indians may not even reach the level of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

How many more decades do the Indians have?

Ma Shao felt that there were only two. If by the time the Civil War is over, the Indians still cannot gain a foothold in North America and have not established a solid base strong enough to protect themselves, then their future fate will probably be no different from that of their previous lives.

In addition, there is another reason that prevents him from introducing Chinese.

In this era, Chinese workers have not yet arrived, and there are very few Chinese in America. How can a thirteen-year-old Apache boy who has had little contact with the outside world explain his outrageously fluent Chinese?

Is it possible to claim that "Last night the great spirit taught me a beautiful writing in a dream"?

What a nonsense!

If Ma Shao was reborn in the 19th century BC, he would definitely be willing to do this. But now it is the 19th century AD, in 1844, Maxwell is about to publish his first paper.

This may have miraculous effects among the Indians at first, but then, the Indians were amazed by the miracles and became convinced of religion and couldn't help themselves from then on?

Mashao doesn't want this.

So in the end, he could only choose the "Chinese Pinyin Plan" and combine it with the Apache language to create a pinyin script.

The "Chinese Pinyin Plan" may seem simple, but in fact it is the result of discussions by tens of thousands of linguists in later generations combined with practice. It is easy to learn, practical, concise, and accurate, and is both suitable for Chinese and close to English.

Although it is not perfect, it is absolutely balanced. It can be called a regular hexagon player and has strong vitality. With it, all Apache words can be spelled out.

And Mashao doesn’t need to explain anything. After all, this plan was created in 1958, which is still more than a hundred years ago.

In this day and age, let alone the "Hanyu Pinyin Plan", even the Wetoma Pinyin has not yet appeared. He can just say that he invented it himself.

As for the future, if the Chinese on the other side of the ocean discover that this set of Apache pinyin actually matches Chinese, it will not be difficult to explain it - it's fate!

It just promotes the friendship between the two parties.

Even going one step further, the two parties took this opportunity to directly recognize each other, saying that they were brothers who had been separated ten thousand years ago... Anyway, Mashao would definitely be happy to do this.

"My idea is this." Ma Shao said as he wrote, "The pronunciation of these letters and combinations is similar to English, such as a, b, c... an, han, en... Then you can use them to spell Apache

vocabulary of the language.”

"The number 'one' can be represented by 'datelaa', the number 'two' can be represented by 'nakeyi' or simplified to 'naki', the number 'three' can be represented by 'tagi'... and this 'giao'..."

"For changes in tone, we can add four symbols, corresponding to the four basic tones."

Rainy Day can speak multiple languages ​​at a young age, and his language talent is naturally extraordinary. Therefore, he understood the plan proposed by Mashao very well, and he was able to draw inferences from one example and write a lot of Apache vocabulary according to the pinyin rules.

"ashilai, gousidan, gonsiei, naniyagei..." Apache words were created one after another. The more he wrote, the more excited he became, and he even became a little unsteady about holding the pen.

There is no doubt that this is an absolutely feasible plan, and in his opinion, it is simply a miracle!

In the past, I wanted to create Apache characters on rainy days, but I had no clue, and it felt like it was as difficult as climbing to the sky.

But when Ma Shao proposed this set of rules, everything seemed to fall into place, and the birth of various words was so natural and flowing.

He believes that within a few days, the Apache language will be fully written.

"Ma Shao, you created Apache writing!" On a rainy day, he hugged Ma Shao's arm, spittle flying everywhere excitedly.

"Calm down." Ma Shao wiped his face awkwardly.

He was still excited on the rainy day and could not calm down. He said with certainty: "You must be sent by the Great Spirit to save us, absolutely! I guarantee with my life that this must be the will of the Great Spirit!"

"..." The horse whistle broke into sweat.

He had always felt that the high priest's religious belief on Rainy Day was not strong, and he often even showed some signs of materialism. Now he might have turned into a fanatical shaman because of this incident.

He brought the topic back to text: "Ahem, we need to complete the establishment of all words as soon as possible and set standard usage and update rules."

"Standard usage and update rules?" Rainy Day was a little confused.

Ma Shao explained: "Standard usage is the way to use words that everyone should follow as much as possible. Only a unified language can communicate. The more unified the easier it is to communicate."

This is not difficult to understand. Rainy Day suddenly nodded, but then asked: "What does it mean to update the rules?"

"Update rules are rules that change standard usage. Language is not immutable, but it cannot be changed at will. We must set up a set of rules specifically to deal with language changes. Only in this way can the Apache language have vitality." Ma Shao said slowly.

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As a person who comes from the Internet age, language change, innovation, elimination and other evolutionary processes are common sense in life to him.