Reconstruction of Middle Sinitic
Language Log 2020-08-23
Summary:
"What 'Ancient' Chinese Sounded Like – and how we know" (YouTube 7:56) Source Based on the best modern scholarship and the most vital premodern primary materials, this short presentation is really quite impressive and has some cute touches, as when Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), the founder of Western studies on the scientific reconstruction of Middle Sinitic […]