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2024
Old_Chinese
Old Chinese
English
Proper noun
Old
Chinese
A linguistic ancestor of the
Chinese
languages
, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE.
Translations
Chinese language
Chinese:
Mandarin:
上古漢語
,
上古汉语
(
shànggǔ hànyǔ
)
German:
Altchinesisch
n
Russian:
древнекита́йский
(ru)
m
(
drevnekitájskij
)
(
язы́к
)
See also
Wiktionary's coverage of Old Chinese terms
Appendix:Old Chinese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Old Chinese
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