"My own words......" Rainy Sky sighed, "I've thought about it too, but I don't feel like I know where to start, not everyone is Sekoya." ”

Sequoia was a Cherokee, the creator of the Cherokee script, and he also visited the tribes in an attempt to create a script that would pass all the tribes, but this was obviously impossible.

Eventually, the pioneer of the Indian writing industry died of illness while traveling, and died of regret.

Ma Whistle was silent for a while, as if he was still hesitating, but finally made up his mind and said, "I have some ideas. ”

I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard it on a rainy day.

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

The sentry got up and fetched a few blank pieces of paper and a quill, and began to write on them.

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

That's right, it is the "Hanyu Pinyin Scheme" used by the later New China.

If the Indians wanted to develop, the written word was indispensable. But Ma Whistle is not a linguist, and he doesn't even have any knowledge of the language, even English is sparse, and it is impossible to create a written word on his own.

He had only one idea for creating words, which was to start with his native language, to be precise, his native language in his previous life, Chinese.

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

Therefore, although Ma Whistle has thought more than once about introducing Chinese to the Apache people in full, he still realizes that it is not feasible at all.

It must be more difficult for Indians to learn Chinese than Chinese to learn English, and in learning foreign languages, Ma Whistle himself is a failed example.

If Chinese 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 Warring States period.

How many more decades are there for the Indians?

Ma Whistle felt that there were only two, and if the Indians could not gain a foothold in North America by the end of the Civil War, and had not established a solid base sufficient for self-preservation, then the fate of the future would be no different from the history of the previous life.

In addition to this, there was another reason that prevented him from introducing Chinese.

How can a thirteen-year-old Apache boy who has basically no contact with the outside world explain his outrageous fluency in Chinese?

Is it possible to claim that "last night the Great Spirit had a dream and taught me a beautiful text"?

That's!

If it had been reborn in the 19th century B.C., Ma Whistle might have been willing to do so. But it was now the nineteenth century, and in 1844, Maxwell was about to publish his first paper.

This may have worked wonders among the Indians at first, but then the Indians were amazed by the miracles and became religious?

The horse whistle did not want that.

So in the end, he could only choose the "Hanyu Pinyin Scheme", combined with the Apache language, to create a pinyin script. The result of the fusion of the two may not be perfect, but it is the only word-making scheme he can achieve.

The Hanyu Pinyin Scheme seems simple, but in fact it is the result of practical discussions by tens of thousands of linguists in later generations, which is both easy to learn, practical, concise, and accurate, suitable for both Chinese and English.

It's not perfect, but it's perfectly balanced, and it's a regular hexagon player with a lot of vitality. Through it, it is enough to spell out all the Apache words.

And Ma Whistle doesn't need to explain anything, after all, this plan was made in 1958, and it is still more than a hundred years away.

At present, not to mention the "Hanyu Pinyin Scheme", even Weituma Pinyin has not yet appeared, he directly said that he invented it.

As for the future, if the Chinese on the other side of the ocean find that this set of Apache pinyin is inexplicably matched with Chinese, it is not difficult to explain - fate!

It's a good way to promote friendship between the two sides.

Even further, the two sides took advantage of this to directly recognize each other, saying that they were separated brothers 10,000 years ago...... Anyway, the horse whistle is definitely happy to do that.

"That's what I envisioned." "These letters and combinations have the same pronunciation as English, such as a, b, c...... an、han、en…… They can then be spelled into Apache words. ”

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

"For the change of tone, we can add four symbols, corresponding to the four basic tones."

On a rainy day, he can speak a multi-ethnic language at a young age, and his language talent is naturally not ordinary, so he understands the plan proposed by Ma Whistle very well, and can draw inferences from one another, and writes a lot of Apache vocabulary according to the rules of pinyin.

"Ashilai, gousidan, gonsiei, naniyagei...... "Apache words were coined one after another, and the more he wrote, the more excited he became, and he couldn't even hold the pen steadily.

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

In the past, I wanted to create Apache characters on rainy days, but I didn't have a clue, and it was a bit of a struggle.

But when Ma Whistle came up with this set of rules, everything seemed to come naturally, and the birth of various words was so natural and fluid.

He believed that in a few days, the Apache language would be written.

"Horse whistle, you created the Apache script!" On a rainy day, he hugged Ma Whistle's arm, and the spit stars splashed around excitedly.

"Calm down." The horse whistle wiped his face in embarrassment.

The excitement was still on a rainy day, and he couldn't calm down, and he said conclusively: "You must have been sent by the Great Spirit to save us, absolutely!" I vouch with my life that it must be the will of the Great Spirit! ”

"......" the horse whistle sweated.

He had always felt that the high priest's religious beliefs on rainy days were not strong, and even often showed some signs of materialism, so he should not have become a fanatical shaman directly because of this incident.

He reverted the topic back to the text: "Ahem, we need to get all the words done as soon as possible, and set standard usage and update rules. ”

"Standard usage and update rules?" The rainy day is a little confusing.

Ma Whistle explained: "The standard usage is the way everyone should follow the word as much as possible, and only a unified language can communicate, and the more unified it is, the easier it is to communicate." ”

It's not hard to understand this, and he nodded abruptly on a rainy day, but then asked, "What does it mean to update the rules?" ”

"Updating the rules is changing the rules of standard usage, and the language is not static, but it can't be changed at will. We have to set a set of rules that deal specifically with linguistic change, and only then can the Apache language be viable. Ma Whistle said slowly.

As a person from the Internet age, the evolution process of language change, innovation, and elimination is common sense in life for him.