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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 ...
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.
Sep 29, 2014 · This article covers linguistics of Chinese language in the historical period from the earliest records around 1200 BCE to Late Han.
The common ancestor from which the Sinitic languages descend is a variety of Old Chinese. The conventional view, which has rightly been challenged in recent decades, is that all Chinese dialect groups (other than Mǐn) descend from the medieval northern Chinese language known as Middle Chinese.
The Chinese language has evolved in roughly three stages: Old Chinese, Medieval Chinese, and Modern Chinese (Norman, 1998).
This chapter gives a brief sketch of the evolutionary background of the diverse peoples and languages of China. It discusses the physical setting of East Asia, which took shape some 50 million years ago as a result of a tectonic collision.
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This chapter outlines the history of the development and spread of what became what we now know as the Sinitic (Chinese) languages and the effects that migrations, cultural contact, and national policies had on the development.
