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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.
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After the fall of the Northern Song (959–1126) and during...
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Mandarin Chinese, [2] or simply Mandarin, ( / ˈmændərɪn / (...
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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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Jun 14, 2019 · It was not until 1909 that Mandarin became the national language of China, 国语 ( guó yǔ). When the Qing Dynasty fell in 1912, the Republic of China maintained Mandarin as the official language. It was renamed 普通话 (pǔ tōng huà) in 1955, but Taiwan continues to use the name 国语 (guó yǔ).
Jun 9, 2020 · The phonological system seen in this book is completely different from the Qièyùn system, but it shares many basic phonological characteristics with Modern Mandarin. Therefore, in the study of historical phonology, the Chinese of the Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn is referred to as Old Mandarin.
The former marks the beginning of Middle Chinese, and the latter marks the beginning of Old Mandarin. Both of these systems, as well as reconstructed Old Chinese, should be understood as ideal phonological standards and composite in nature.
