Edited sentence: Bernard created a practical orthography for Mezquital Otomi designed for ease of usage by native speakers, it did not denote tone and used only symbols found on a standard spanish language type writer, employing for example the letter c for , v for  and the symbol + for.He taught this transcription system to the native speaker Jesus Pedraza Salinas who became very proficient in its use and published two works in the Otomi language together with Bernard