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Old Mandarin

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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Early forms
Middle Chinese
Era
12th to 14th centuries
Glottolog
None
Hanyu Pinyin
Gǔ Guānhuà · Zǎoqí Guānhuà
ISO 639-3
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Language family
SiniticChineseMandarinOld Mandarin · ChineseMandarinOld Mandarin · MandarinOld Mandarin · Old Mandarin

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Old Mandarin

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Edges47
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Avg. degree1.96
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Components1

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Old Mandarin

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related to Further reading · 30
Old Mandarin → Altaic, Chaofen, Chinese Linguistics, Diachronically-motivated Segmental Phonology, Dong, Early Mandarin, Far Eastern Publications, Historical Chinese Phonology, Hugh, ISBN, Li, Mandarin Chinese, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Peter Lang, S-Y, Shen, Stimson, Sun, Taipei
related to Finals · 11
Old Mandarin → Although, Divisions III, Each, Early Middle Chinese, II, IV, Palatal, Palatalization, Qieyun, The Late Middle Chinese, The LMC
related to Initials · 10
Old Mandarin → Chinese, In Middle Chinese, In Old Mandarin, Late Middle Chinese, Mandarin, Middle Chinese, Shao Yong's, The, This, With
related to Phonology · 6
Old Mandarin → Mandarin, Menggu Ziyun, Middle Chinese, Phags-pa, The, Zhongyuan Yinyun
Language family · 4
Old Mandarin → ChineseMandarinOld Mandarin, MandarinOld Mandarin, Old Mandarin, SiniticChineseMandarinOld Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin · 2
Old Mandarin → Gǔ Guānhuà, Zǎoqí Guānhuà
Simplified Chinese · 2
Old Mandarin → 古官话, 早期官话
Traditional Chinese · 2
Old Mandarin → 古官話, 早期官話
Transcriptions · 2
Old Mandarin → TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinGǔ Guānhuà, TranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinZǎoqí Guānhuà
Early forms · 1
Old Mandarin → Middle Chinese

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chinese mandarin old middle dialects tones rhyme rime language including stops initials phonology syllables dynasty zhongyuan yinyun modern early ʼphags-pa

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Old MandarinEarly formsMiddle Chinese1.00infobox
Old MandarinEra12th to 14th centuries1.00infobox
Old MandarinGlottologNone1.00infobox
Old MandarinHanyu PinyinGǔ Guānhuà1.00infobox
Old MandarinHanyu PinyinZǎoqí Guānhuà1.00infobox
Old MandarinISO 639-3–1.00infobox
Old MandarinLanguage familySiniticChineseMandarinOld Mandarin1.00infobox
Old MandarinLanguage familyChineseMandarinOld Mandarin1.00infobox
Old MandarinLanguage familyMandarinOld Mandarin1.00infobox
Old MandarinLanguage familyOld Mandarin1.00infobox
Old MandarinRegionNorth China Plain1.00infobox
Old MandarinSimplified Chinese古官话1.00infobox
Old MandarinSimplified Chinese早期官话1.00infobox
Old MandarinTraditional Chinese古官話1.00infobox
Old MandarinTraditional Chinese早期官話1.00infobox
Old MandarinTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinGǔ Guānhuà1.00infobox
Old MandarinTranscriptionsTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinZǎoqí Guānhuà1.00infobox
Old MandarinWriting systemChinese characters, ʼPhags-pa script1.00infobox

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