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The earliest historical linguistic evidence of the spoken Chinese language dates back approximately 4500 years, [1] while examples of the writing system that would become written Chinese are attested in a body of inscriptions made on bronze vessels and oracle bones during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 – 1050 BCE), [2] [3] with the very ...
Feb 23, 2023 · Here, we examine paradigmatic examples of this from the emergence and evolution of young sign languages (see ‘Emergent Sign Languages’, next), and the distribution of features in modern languages (see ‘Cross-linguistic Similarities and Differences’).
The evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques.
Sep 1, 2017 · Today, in mainstream linguistics, language evolution no longer denotes the course of linguistic features morphing into alternatives with greater selective advantages, but the nebulous set of phylogenetic events that made us loquens.
- Bernard H. Bichakjian
- 2017
This article focuses on the evolution of language over the years. The evidence for primate and human evolution has derived primarily from comparative anatomy and fossil records, although since the 1960s, molecular and biochemical evidences have increasingly been used to delineate phylogenetic relationships among living species and diverse human ...
Mar 1, 2013 · From a phylogenetic perspective, did language emerge abruptly or gradually? If the emergence of language was protracted, what plausible intermediate stages can be posited and what would count as evidence for positing them?
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By the sixth century CE, Old Chinese had evolved into what’s now called Middle Chinese, the language spoken during the Sui (618-907 CE), Tang (618-907 CE) and Song (907-1279 CE) dynasties.
