"What clues?" The minister jerked to his feet, ignoring the messy papers in front of him, and immediately grabbed the collar of the staff member across the desk.

"Vision...... The staff member who was grabbed by the collar ...... had difficulty breathing, and laboriously pointed to the operating table in front of the minister: "Video...... Yes...... Conference ......"

"Ah, oh, oh!" The minister immediately let go of his hands and quickly operated a few times, and the large screen opposite flickered a few times, and an open large room appeared, as well as dozens of figures with excited expressions and full of scholarly atmosphere.

“…… With more than 20,000 languages spoken by more than 1,000 people around the world and more than 3,000 languages spoken by more than 30,000 people, the development of languages is an extremely complex process......"

When the minister joined the videoconference, the scholar standing in the middle was speaking: "Geographical isolation: mountains, rivers, swamps, deserts...... and the social environment: war, plague, customs, etc., are the two most likely factors to produce a new language...... Such examples abound in the history of the world of the earth, such as the Alps......"

"Did I press something wrong?" Listening to these chirps, which had nothing to do with the "supernatural clues", the minister raised his head and looked at the assistant.

"Please keep it ...... brief" At this time, the other party connected to the video conference expressed the same eagerness, which was a very familiar voice, and the director of the public opinion guidance department heard that the other party should be the head of the Ministry of Public Emergency Affairs: "If you need it, if you have a problem, we will ask you again." ”

"Hmm...... Okay......" The scholar who was speaking paused, and flipped the document in his hand back five pages in a row: "...... For the medieval world, severe physical confinement, never leaving the village from birth to death, was the norm for the vast majority of free people; Even the lord class, with a long period of war and hostility to each other, is at high risk of leaving the ruling area; Different villages ruled by the same lord were no exception, and due to the poor living conditions and poor transportation, the gentry would be reluctant to go out unless it was a tax collection or a very serious incident. ”

"Therefore ......"

When the minister finally heard the key word "therefore", he listened to the scholar continue: "Under the influence of geographical isolation and social environment, we can see that the village of Akri and other villages are almost different countries, and even if there is a messenger interpreter, it is quite difficult to communicate. ”

Speaking of this, the scholar raised his hand to signal, and a relatively young man next to him, who was about an assistant, pressed the console a few times, and the display screen behind the scholar showed a clip of the exchange between Dean and Elmo when they first arrived in Akrya's village, a clip of the interrogation when they caught the thieves captive, and a clip of Wu Qingchen's private use of public weapons to block the messengers from other villages.

In this case, under the premise of the unity of writing, such as the earth, they are considered to be very different dialects from each other...... Put it in the Middle Ages, where the literacy rate was less than 0.5%, it was already a different language in nature. ”

"Zoom in to the entire Akford Territory, and it's pretty much the same. From yesterday's dinner, the visit to the castle, and the casual conversation before this morning's prayer, it is clear that all the officers, guards, and attendants from different villages have a very serious accent problem...... For example, the second head of the village, whose father is a ...... of Ou Rui Village"

"Please wait a minute...... the minister adjusted the status of the microphone and joined the video link: "These situations are basically the briefing...... Where are the supernatural clues? ”

"Supernatural clues, just hidden in the accent......" The scholar paused again, turning the two pages of the document again: "Hmm...... Here's ......."

The scholar gestured again, and the assistant next to him operated again, and a panoramic picture of Wu Qingchen guiding everyone to pray in the morning appeared on the display screen.

"Due to the good stage effect designed by the staff committee, the morning prayer presided over by Mr. Wu Qingchen is very infectious, please see ......" The scholar adjusted the speed to 0.3 times, held a small stick and clicked on the video screen, everyone looked at the position where the scholar deliberately clicked, and soon found that when Wu Qingchen read the prayer, a large part of the audience below was following the silent recitation.

"Follow along...... Isn't it possible? Is this a supernatural clue? "The Minister of Public Opinion Orientation heard that the head of the Ministry of Public Emergency Affairs was already impatient.

"Nope." The scholar shook his head: "The following is the result of the cooperation between the experts of the lip language group and the micro-expression group. ”

The scholar pressed a few keys, and a series of words and phrases were immediately heard from the speakers by more than two dozen people at the same time in the languages of the Middle World.

"It's a simulation of religious terms."

With that, the scholar pressed a few more keys, and another string of words and phrases spoken by the two dozen or so people at the same time in the language of the Middle World came out of the speaker.

"It's a simulation of everyday conversation."

"Hmm...... one of the more perceptive video conference participants spoke: "The accent of morning prayer is very neat, and the difference in ordinary conversation is quite large. ”

"Not bad." In the footage of the remote video conference, the scholar nodded: "Of these dozen or so voices, one-third are permanent residents of Fort Akford, one-third are officials who often need to travel to other villages on business, and the last third are people who have lived in other villages for many years...... The results are clear: geographical isolation and social environment factors have very different influences in terms of religious language and everyday conversation. ”

"This ......," the person in charge of the Public Opinion Guidance Department said suspiciously, "Is this a difference caused by the standard pronunciation?" Formal French and regional slang are not affected by the same degree of local accent...... After all, the official French language has a national education system, as well as a national coverage of radio, television, and ......"

Speaking of this, the person in charge of the public opinion guidance department suddenly stopped by himself.

"That's right, it's the same as you think...... scholar smiled, "Radio, television, websites, of course all these medieval worlds are not available...... As for the education system, the teaching ability of His Excellency Praia has been seen by everyone. ”

"Don't bother with the fools in the Ministry of Public Opinion, and then what?" Another video conference participant couldn't wait to ask questions.

The "Hmm......" scholar only turned one page this time: "Data analysis shows that the objects that Mr. Wu Qingchen has come into contact with are directly proportional to the degree of geographical isolation between them in terms of language and accent, and the greater the degree of isolation, the more obvious the difference in accents. ”

For example, ......" the scholar's assistant operated again, so that the content of the display was changed again: "pea, buckwheat, diving, small fire are the most common words...... Based on the accent of the village of Akrya1, the nearest village is 0.85 in Akford, 0.72 in the farther village of Ori, 0.63 in the farther village of Loveland, 0.41 for the parish deacon, and 0.2......2 for thieves from another territory."

Speaking of this, the scholar's arm was downward: "Such a change is basically a diagonal line. ”

"However......," the scholar continues, "the same subject of these statistics, when it comes to religious terms, although they are also affected by accentization, the average rate of change is only 17%-25%, and the rate of change of some uncommon, purely spiritual words is even between 5% and 9%!" ”

Speaking of this, the scholar's arm bent: "Such a change is basically a wavy line with very low undulations. ”

"Slash...... The wavy line ......" the head of the Public Opinion Guidance Department muttered and repeated, and something had vaguely come to mind in his mind.

The scholar who spoke at the "...... by discussing with gentlemen in the field of linguistics" nodded to dozens of other scholars in the seminar room: "Communicating with colleagues from other countries, the current conclusion is that the rate of change of everyday language is 15%-78%, which is completely consistent with the judgment of the local language in the previous Akford Territory and the surrounding area, which was affected by geographical isolation and social environmental factors, and gradually formed a local language in about 200-500 years. ”

"Religious language is only 5%-9%, and 17%-25%......" Speaking of this, the speaker had a look on his face that he couldn't even believe: "5%-9%!" What does this mean? This data shows that from 300 years ago, the entire Akford Territory, the entire parish of Fishgard, and even another area covered by the lords actually used the same language! The accent is exactly the same language, and for a long, long time, over a hundred years, almost nothing has changed! ”

"And what does 17%-25% mean?"

The speaker said in a slow and solemn tone: "At present, there are many conjectures, but the most recognized by global peers is that 150-170 years ago, after a sudden change, the original identical religious language suddenly began to be affected by the surrounding geographical isolation and social environmental factors. ”

"150-170 years ......"

The screen behind the scholar shows these two large red numbers:

"Matching this data with the results of theologians from all major religions and the military is amazing."