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Chapter 83: Primitive Vowels (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

New Year.

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

Dongdu Library, annex building.

Fang Cheng glanced at the display stand that introduced the activities held during the holidays.

Then walk along the corridor and soon find a multimedia tiered classroom.

When I pushed the door open, I saw a gray-haired female scholar standing on the podium, debugging the slides.

The lecture activity seems to have just begun.

There were already quite a few people sitting inside, including older scholars in the same industry and some young students.

Fang Cheng tiptoed to the empty seat in the last row and joined them.

The female scholar fiddled with the microphone at the podium and cleared her throat.

This was a signal to the audience who were whispering to each other to be quiet.

As the discussions died down, the female scholar began her lecture.

"As we all know, the world we live in has many different languages and scripts. In Xia alone, more than 100 languages have been discovered so far. If we look at the world as a whole, this number is even more astonishing..."

Fang Cheng also pricked up his ears and focused on listening.

I have seen the speaker's resume on the display stand before.

Hao Yu is a professor of the Department of Archaeology at Dongdu University and a famous paleoanthropologist.

In certain areas of academic research, he can be considered one of the world's top authoritative scholars.

The title of this lecture is:

"The common origin of the world's languages and its significance for the history of human evolution."

Just as Professor Hao was making his opening remarks, there was a burst of rapid sound of high heels tapping on the ground.

Then, a fragrant breeze blew across my face.

A graceful woman walked straight to sit next to Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng turned his head and found that it was the beautiful teacher Lin Chuqiao whom he met that day.

"Shh!"

She was late and raised a finger to signal not to speak.

Fang Cheng turned his head away speechlessly.

Even though this woman had helped me, they weren't that close, right?

Today she is wearing a beige suit that is full of elegance, which makes her figure look even more impressive than before.

The faint scent of perfume sprayed on her body wafts over from time to time, which is inevitably distracting.

Fang Cheng sniffed and frowned slightly.

Sometimes, having too keen a sense of smell is not a good thing.

After glancing at the woman next to him, he chose to sit one seat away from her.

Lin Chuqiao looked calmly in the direction of the podium, but a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"In our academic community, we call the oldest common language elements 'primitive vowels', which originated from primitive tribes living in the plateau areas of the continent during the Great Flood. After the flood subsided, the survivors brought them to all parts of the world."

Professor Hao turned on the slide projector and used the prepared text and pictures to explain his academic views.

"The primitive vowels can be said to be the most basic type of guttural sounds that humans can produce, with vowels and single syllables as the core elements to express important things in the lives of primitive people."

“For example, the connection between humans and gods and demons, sacrifices, the sun, moon, stars, the changing seasons, birth, aging, illness and death, and these have left traces in almost all languages.”

She walked around the stage, pointing to the five basic vowels on the slide on the screen.

"The vowel E has retained its most complete original form in the pronunciation and writing of the Xia State, that is, a horizontal line represents the earth from east to west, the origin of all things, which is also the number 'one', the 'one' of Taiyi."

"The vowel O is a circle in the original Chinese characters, representing the sky and infinite time, with no beginning and no end. It also corresponds to the Wuji in Xia culture."

"The vowel I is a symbol from top to bottom, representing the ladder connecting heaven and earth, man and God."

"Coincidentally, these three vowels combined happen to be the name of the Creator in the ancient desert language..."

Professor Hao explained the original meanings of the five vowels one by one, and then made a summary:

"All languages in the world can be seen as a branching system of evolution, and the original vowels are the roots of the human language tree."

"The Xia language is a very important language system that combines both phonetics and pictographic semantics. It is also the language system with the largest population base in the world today. It has extremely important research value for our academic community..."

Having said that, Professor Hao drank a sip of tea and took a short rest.

As he continued to speak, his tone became a little heavy. "I believe everyone has heard that a very unfortunate incident occurred in Xishan at the beginning of last month. Many of my colleagues and friends died."

"However, in this Xishan archaeological site, we also found some things that can support the original vowel theory."

Hearing this, not only Fang Cheng was aroused with great interest, but other scholars could not help but discuss it in a low voice.

Professor Hao did not keep the secret and quickly continued:

"Next, I will play a tape."

"This is based on the original text found by our archaeologists in the underground palace. After deciphering it, we have compiled the audio data."

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience couldn't help but burst into an uproar.

Lin Chuqiao leaned over and whispered:
"Listen carefully, maybe the answer you are looking for is here."

Fang Cheng glanced at her with slight surprise.

At the same time, I also held a bit of expectation, calmed down and waited quietly.

Professor Hao took out a tape and put it into the player on the podium.

Perhaps in order to allow everyone to better immerse themselves in the listening atmosphere, the overhead lighting was also turned off one after another.

Click.

As the keys clicked, the faint rustling sound of the tape turning was transmitted to the entire classroom through the microphone.

In the darkness, everyone held their breath, waiting for the audio data to be officially opened.

Rustle, rustle, rustle...

Just when everyone was getting a little impatient.

Moo--

Suddenly, a desolate and deep mooing sound came from the player.

Then, through the microphone, the sound waves are instantly spread to everyone's ears.

The sound seemed to have come from the distant wilderness, across time and space, and arrived here.

It makes one's heart tremble slightly.

I don’t know how other listeners feel specifically.

It was as if a string was suddenly plucked in Fang Cheng's mind.

buzzing-

As the sound waves vibrated, I felt a strange resonance between my body and the surrounding environment.

That extremely deep melody was like knocking on a tightly closed door in the brain, giving rise to some signs of sudden enlightenment.

Before he could concentrate and think carefully.

Another syllable followed.

This vowel seemed to leak out from the slightly opened door.

Very light, yet very noisy.

Gradually, it became a sound like the tide.

In a trance, Fang Cheng actually had a feeling of being there.

Just in front of him, a huge wave was forming, hitting the door continuously, and it seemed that it was about to pour out.

The grandeur of the aura made Fang Cheng wonder if he was hallucinating.

In a flash, I was still deeply attracted to it and felt happy.

And right now.

The panel flickered and also appeared before our eyes.

【Japanese language level 1 (13/250)】

【Nanyang Language Level 0 (95/100)】

[Desert Language lv0 (87/100)]

[Latin level 0 (64/100)]

Among them, four language skills shine brighter than usual.

If you look carefully.

It can be found that the experience value on the panel is actually rising continuously with the echo of the syllables.

(End of this chapter)