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Old Chinese was written with several early forms of Chinese characters, including oracle bone, bronze, and seal scripts. Throughout the Old Chinese period, there was a close correspondence between a character and a monosyllabic and monomorphemic word.
Ancient Chinese Writing evolved from the practice of divination during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE). Some theories suggest that images and markings on pottery shards found at Ban Po Village are evidence of an early writing system but this claim has been challenged repeatedly.
Chinese writing, basically logographic writing system, one of the world’s great writing systems. Like Semitic writing in the West, Chinese script was fundamental to the writing systems in the East.
For over two thousand years, the predominant form of written Chinese was Literary Chinese, which had vocabulary and syntax rooted in the language of the Chinese classics, as spoken around the time of Confucius (c. 500 BCE). Over time, Literary Chinese acquired some elements of grammar and vocabulary from various varieties of vernacular Chinese ...
Oracle-bone script (jiaguwen), the earliest known form of systematic Chinese writing, dates from the fourteenth to eleventh century BCE. The sharp beginning and end of each stroke relate to the script’s origins in carving divination texts on tortoise shells and on the flat bones of certain animals.
A well-balanced lemma in an encyclopedia intended for a wider linguistic audience, covering all the most important linguistic features of Classical Chinese (prehistory and history, writing system, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon).
Old Chinese was written with several early forms of Chinese characters, including oracle bone, bronze, and seal scripts. Throughout the Old Chinese period, there was a close correspondence between a character and a monosyllabic and monomorphemic word.
This page provides (1) Links to online databases of digitized Chinese texts and (2) Links to other sites with digital applications for early Chinese phonology and philology. (1) Any of the texts on these sites can be copied and pasted directly into the main Digital EDOC modules.
Old Chinese is attested in a plethora of texts, including classical works such as the Analects, the Mencius and the Zuo zhuan, and hence formed the model for Literary or Classical Chinese (wényánwén 文言文), which was used for almost all formal writing in China until the early 20th century.
This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the first Sino-Tibetan language to be reduced to writing.