Old Chinese

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

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