Old Chinese

English

Proper noun

Old Chinese

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

Coordinate terms: Old Chinese, Middle Chinese

Translations

Chinese language

Chinese:
Mandarin: 上古漢語／上古汉语 (zh) (shànggǔ hànyǔ)
Finnish: muinaiskiina
Galician: chinés antigo m
German: Altchinesisch n
Italian: antico cinese m, cinese antico m
Russian: древнекита́йский (ru) m (drevnekitájskij) (язы́к)

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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