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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 ...
Many linguists discussing the origin of language assume there was a single origin of language and therefore a single ancestral language, a Proto-World, whether or not reconstructable from modern data.
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 ...
Nov 2, 2023 · Four hundred years ago, anther Italian missionary Matteo Ricci began to translate the Four Books, the four classic Confucian texts, into Latin, and for the first time transcribed Chinese characters in Latin, which pioneered pinyin, the system of writing Chinese using the English alphabet.
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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Sep 29, 2014 · This article covers linguistics of Chinese language in the historical period from the earliest records around 1200 BCE to Late Han.
