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