Timeline for Is there strong evidence that Classical Chinese was ever spoken?
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| Sep 1, 2015 at 11:17 | answer | added | flow | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 | comment | added | Pedroski | Imagine you are in the year 4015 and you ask the same question about 普通话。People I know can speak 普通话, but they normally speak another language. 南京话 is already hard. 泰州话 is unintelligible to 普通话 speakers. 1 hour from here is 高淳。 They speak a dialect so strange, 高淳人 were used to transmit radio messages in the war. The Japanese might have understood Chinese, but they were never going to understand 高淳话。This repeats itself all over China. Does anyone really speak 普通话？ | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 1:13 | comment | added | Jimmy S | An answer to another question may be of interest to you. "As read in reference from Wikipedia (文言文), classic Chinese (文言文) was the oral Chinese back to the 先秦 era (era before Qing Dynasty, i.e. before 221BC)." | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 21:58 | comment | added | user4452 | Written language is always modelled on spoken language, it can't exist in a vacuum. In this case, old Chinese (Zhou, Han) is the model language that cemented classical Chinese for centuries, very much like the Latin Romans spoke became fixed in writing for over a thousand years. | |
| Aug 30, 2015 at 18:53 | history | asked | sqrtbottle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |