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Old Chinese
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English
Proto-Sinitic
Pronunciation
en /ˈəʊld t͡ʃaɪˈniːz/ UK
en /ˈoʊld ˌt͡ʃaɪˈniz/ US
Proper noun
Old Chinese
en retronym A linguistic ancestor of the Chinese languages, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE.
en Archaic Chinese obsolete
en Old Chinese Middle Chinese
Translations
ancestor of the Chinese language
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 上古漢語 shànggǔ hànyǔ
Finnish: fi muinaiskiina
French: fr chinois archaïque m
Galician: gl chinés antigo m
German: de Altchinesisch n
Greek: el Παλαιά Κινεζικά f
Ancient Greek: grc γλῶσσα Σηρική παλαιά f
Italian: it antico cinese m, it cinese antico m
Latin: la Lingua Sinica antiqua f
Polish: pl język starochiński m-in
Russian: ru древнекита́йский m язы́к
See also
och
en Languages Chinese