Old Chinese

English

Proper noun

Old Chinese

  1. A linguistic ancestor of the Chinese languages, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE.
    Synonym: (obsolete) Archaic Chinese
    Coordinate terms: Old Chinese, Middle Chinese

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See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Chinese terms
  • Appendix:Old Chinese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Old Chinese
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