Re: Origin of Chinese spoken languages - 5th evidence

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:39:45 GMT

Paul Kekai Manansala wrote:

> Middle Chinese pronounciation is somewhat speculative as the actual
> sounds of many languages are not necessarily accurately related by the
> script.

Middle Chinese pronunciation is no more speculative than Indo-European
pronunciation; it's based on the same sort of comparative analysis, and
has the bonus resource of the contemporary rhyme tables.

> The nature of the language of the early oracle bone inscriptions has to
> remain speculative. The latter Shang inscriptions though show more
> signs of possilbe relation to some form of proto-Chinese language.

What sort of distinction are you trying to make? The early oracle bone
inscriptions _are_ from the lat(t)er Shang. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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