• symbols, see Help:IPA. Scholars have attempted to reconstruct the phonology of Old Chinese from documentary evidence. Although the writing system does not...
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  • transcription delimiters. Historical Chinese phonology deals with reconstructing the sounds of Chinese from the past. As Chinese is written with logographic characters...
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  • Chinese phonology is covered by the following articles: Concerning modern Chinese: Standard Chinese phonology Cantonese phonology For the phonology of...
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    important information for the reconstruction of the preceding system of Old Chinese phonology (early 1st millennium BC). The fanqie method used to indicate pronunciation...
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    Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese...
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  • used elsewhere. Several authors have produced reconstructions of Old Chinese phonology, beginning with the Swedish sinologist Bernhard Karlgren in the...
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  • reference point for his reconstruction of Old Chinese phonology. The centre of the study of Chinese historical phonology is the Qieyun, a rime dictionary created...
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  • Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE. For millennia thereafter, the...
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  • and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin...
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    Scholars have attempted to reconstruct the phonology of Old Chinese by comparing later varieties of Chinese with the rhyming practice of the Classic of...
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