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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Old_MandarinOld Mandarin - Wikipedia

    Old Mandarin or Early Mandarin was the speech of northern China during the Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty and the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (12th to 14th centuries). New genres of vernacular literature were based on this language, including verse, drama and story forms, such as the qu and sanqu.

  2. Early Mandarin, c. 1300 AD (sometimes specifically given as 1269–1455. The Yuan dynasty conquered the whole of China in 1279 and was overpowered by the Ming dynasty in 1368), was the language inferred in the 'Phags-pa script , the first alphabetic writing system for Chinese.

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  4. Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE. For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in the Sinosphere in a form now called Literary Chinese , which was used for almost all formal writing in China ...

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    • 5th century BC to 2nd century AD; continued as a literary language until the 20th century
  5. Jun 9, 2020 · The Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn documents a phonological system that had already existed in the north of China for centuries. Like the Qièyùn , it was not based on the phonology of any single dialect; the phonological distinctions could be from a variety of prestigious forms of Mandarin dialects at the time.

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Old_ChineseOld Chinese - Wikipedia

    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. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the Late Shang period. Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou dynasty.

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