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May 13, 2024 · By digitizing a large lexical dataset of Chinese dialects and comparing it to genetic profiles, Yang et al. reveal a hybrid model of language diffusion, consisting of both population migrations...
May 21, 2024 · The first complete reconstruction, the Grammata Serica Recensa of Bernard Karlgren, was used by Benedict and Shafer. Karlgren's reconstruction was somewhat unwieldy, with many sounds having a highly non-uniform distribution. Later scholars have revised it by drawing on a range of other sources.
May 13, 2024 · Some scholars divide the history of the Chinese languages into Proto-Sinitic (Proto-Chinese; until 500 bc), Archaic (Old) Chinese (8th to 3rd century bc), Ancient (Middle) Chinese (through ad 907), and Modern Chinese (from c. the 10th century to modern times). The Proto-Sinitic period is the period of the most ancient inscriptions and poetry ...
There’s an article I found interesting about the reconstruction of the vowels of Proto-Yue (the theoretical common ancestor of all Cantonese varieties), using the comparative method: “Reconstruction of Proto-Yue Vowels,” by Karen Huang. Karen Huang (2009) 1. Reply.
20 hours ago · Sino-Roman relations comprised the (primarily indirect) contacts and flows of trade goods, information, and occasional travelers between the Roman Empire and the Han dynasty, as well as between the later Eastern Roman Empire and various successive Chinese dynasties that followed. These empires inched progressively closer to each other in the ...
May 23, 2024 · An extensive online, open-access, full-text searchable, digital library of pre-modern Chinese texts: (Classics 經, Philosophy 子, History 史, Literature 集). Includes public domain translations (such as those of James Legge). Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) Database.
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