Category:Old Chinese language

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This is the main category of the Old Chinese language.

It is an extinct language that was formerly spoken in China.

Information about Old Chinese:

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Canonical name	Old Chinese
Language code	`och`
Language family	Sinitic languages
Ancestors	Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Scripts	Traditional Han script (`Hant`)
Transliteration module	Module:zh-translit
Sortkey module	Module:Hani-sortkey
Wikidata	Q35137

Please see Wiktionary:About Old Chinese for information and special considerations for creating Old Chinese language entries.

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- ├──── Early Old Chinese (och-ear) V
- ├──── Late Old Chinese (och-lat) V
- ├───┬ Literary Chinese (lzh)
  - │ ├──── Ci (lzh-cii) V
  - │ ├──── Classical Cantonese (lzh-yue) V
  - │ ├───┬ Classical Mandarin (lzh-cmn) V
    - │ │ └──── Classical Taiwanese Mandarin (lzh-cmn-TW) V
  - │ ├──── Classical Taishanese (lzh-tai) V
  - │ ├──── Korean Classical Chinese (lzh-KO) V
  - │ ├──── Literary Chinese (lzh-lit) V
  - │ ├──── Pre-Classical Chinese (lzh-pre) V
  - │ └──── Vietnamese Classical Chinese (lzh-VI) V
- ├──── Mandarinic (zhx-man) F
- ├───┬ Middle Chinese (ltc)
  - │ ├───┬ Chinese (zh)
    - │ │ └──── Postal Romanization (zh-postal) V
  - │ ├───┬ Early Mandarin (cmn-ear) V
    - │ │ ├──── Dungan (dng)
    - │ │ ├───┬ Mandarin (cmn)
      - │ │ │ ├───┬ Beijingic Mandarin (cmn-bec) V
        │ │ │ │ └──── Beijing Mandarin (cmn-bei) V
      - │ │ │ ├───┬ Central Plains Mandarin (cmn-cep) V
        │ │ │ │ └──── Guanzhong Mandarin (cmn-gua) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Hanyu Pinyin (cmn-pinyin) V
      - │   │   │   ├───┬ Jianghuai Mandarin (cmn-jhu) V
        │   │   │   │   ├──── Nanjing Mandarin (cmn-nan) V
        │   │   │   │   └──── Yangzhou Mandarin (cmn-yan) V
      - │ │ │ ├───┬ Lanyin Mandarin (cmn-lan) V
        │ │ │ │ └──── Xining Mandarin (cmn-xin) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Malaysian Mandarin (cmn-MY) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Northeastern Mandarin (cmn-noe) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Palladius (cmn-palladius) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Philippine Mandarin (cmn-PH) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Singapore Mandarin (cmn-SG) V
      - │   │   │   ├───┬ Southwestern Mandarin (cmn-sow) V
        │   │   │   │   ├──── Guilin Mandarin (cmn-gui) V
        │   │   │   │   └──── Wuhan Mandarin (cmn-wuh) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Taiwanese Mandarin (cmn-TW) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Tangwang (mis-tnw)
      - │ │ │ ├──── Tianjin Mandarin (cmn-tia) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Tongyong Pinyin (cmn-tongyong) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Wade–Giles (cmn-wadegiles) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Written vernacular Mandarin (cmn-wvc) V
      - │ │ │ └──── Wutunhua (wuh)
    - │ │ └──── Sichuanese (zhx-sic)
  - │ ├──── Early Middle Chinese (ltc-ear) V
  - │ ├──── Gan (gan)
  - │ ├───┬ Hakka (hak)
    - │ │ ├──── Dabu Hakka (hak-dab) V
    - │ │ ├──── Early Modern Hakka (hak-eam) V
    - │ │ ├──── Hailu Hakka (hak-hai) V
    - │ │ ├───┬ Huiyang Hakka (hak-hui) V
      - │ │ │ └──── Malaysian Huiyang Hakka (hak-hui-MY) V
    - │ │ ├──── Meixian Hakka (hak-mei) V
    - │ │ ├───┬ Taiwanese Hakka (hak-TW) V
      - │ │ │ └──── Sixian Hakka (hak-six) V
    - │ │ └──── Zhao'an Hakka (hak-zha) V
  - │ ├──── Huizhou (czh)
  - │ ├──── Jin (cjy)
  - │ ├──── Late Middle Chinese (ltc-lat) V
  - │ ├───┬ Pinghua (zhx-pin) F
    - │ │ ├──── Northern Pinghua (cnp)
    - │ │ └──── Southern Pinghua (csp)
  - │ ├───┬ Wu (wuu)
    - │ │ ├──── Hangzhounese (wuu-han) V
    - │ │ ├──── Ningbonese (wuu-nin) V
    - │ │ ├───┬ Northern Wu (wuu-nor) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Shadi Wu (wuu-chm) V
      - │ │ │ ├──── Shanghainese (wuu-sha) V
      - │ │ │ └──── Suzhounese (wuu-suz) V
    - │ │ └──── Wenzhounese (wuu-wen) V
  - │ ├───┬ Xiang (hsn)
    - │ │ ├───┬ Hengzhou Xiang (hsn-hzh) V
      - │ │ │ └──── Hengyang Xiang (hsn-hya) V
    - │ │ ├──── New Xiang (hsn-new) V
    - │ │ └───┬ Old Xiang (hsn-old) V
      - │ │ └──── Loudi Xiang (hsn-lou) V
  - │ └───┬ Yue (zhx-yue) F
    - │ ├───┬ Cantonese (yue)
      - │ │ ├──── Guangzhou Cantonese (yue-gua) V
      - │ │ ├──── Hong Kong Cantonese (yue-HK) V
      - │ │ ├──── Literary Cantonese (yue-lit) V
      - │ │ └──── Written vernacular Cantonese (yue-wvc) V
    - │ └───┬ Taishanese (zhx-tai)
      - │ └──── Written vernacular Taishanese (zhx-tai-wvc) V
- ├───┬ Min (zhx-min) F
  - │ │ Proto-Min (zhx-min-pro)
  - │ ├───┬ Coastal Min (zhx-com) F
    - │ │ ├──── Eastern Min (cdo)
    - │ │ ├──── Min Nan (nan)
    - │ │ ├──── Puxian Min (cpx)
    - │ │ └───┬ Southern Min (zhx-nan) F
      - │   │       ├───┬ Datian Min (nan-dat)
        │   │       │   ├──── Houlu Min (nan-hou) V
        │   │       │   └──── Qianlu Min (nan-qia) V
      - │ │ ├──── Hailufeng Min (nan-hlh)
      - │ │ ├──── Hainanese (hnm)
      - │   │       ├───┬ Hokkien (nan-hbl)
        │   │       │   ├──── Kelantan Peranakan Hokkien (mis-hkl)
        │   │       │   ├───┬ Quanzhou Hokkien (nan-qua) V
        │   │       │   │   ├──── Anxi Hokkien (nan-anx) V
        │   │       │   │   ├──── Hui'an Hokkien (nan-hui) V
        │   │       │   │   ├──── Jinjiang Hokkien (nan-jin) V
        │   │       │   │   ├──── Philippine Hokkien (nan-hbl-PH) V
        │   │       │   │   ├──── Southern Malaysian Hokkien (nan-spm) V
        │   │       │   │   └──── Yongchun Hokkien (nan-yon) V
        │   │       │   ├──── Singapore Hokkien (nan-hbl-SG) V
        │   │       │   ├──── Taiwanese Hokkien (nan-hbl-TW) V
        │   │       │   ├───┬ Xiamen Hokkien (nan-xia) V
        │   │       │   │   ├──── Kinmenese Hokkien (nan-kin) V
        │   │       │   │   └──── Tong'an Hokkien (nan-ton) V
        │   │       │   └───┬ Zhangzhou Hokkien (nan-zha) V
        │   │       │       ├──── Changtai Hokkien (nan-cha) V
        │   │       │       ├──── Medan Hokkien (nan-med) V
        │   │       │       ├──── Penang Hokkien (nan-pen) V
        │   │       │       ├──── Zhangping Hokkien (nan-zhp) V
        │   │       │       └──── Zhao'an Hokkien (nan-zho) V
      - │ │ ├──── Leizhou Min (luh)
      - │ │ ├──── Longyan Min (nan-lnx)
      - │ │ ├──── Sanxiang Min (nan-zsh)
      - │ │ ├──── Teochew (nan-tws)
      - │ │ └──── Zhenan Min (nan-zhe)
  - │ └───┬ Inland Min (zhx-inm) F
    - │ ├──── Central Min (czo)
    - │ ├──── Northern Min (mnp)
    - │ └──── Shaojiang Min (sjc)
- ├──── Shaozhou Tuhua (zhx-sht)
- └──── Waxiang (wxa)

Category:Old Chinese appendices: Pages containing additional information about Old Chinese.
Category:Old Chinese entry maintenance: Old Chinese entries, or entries in other languages containing Old Chinese terms, that are being tracked for attention and improvement by editors.
Category:Old Chinese lemmas: Old Chinese lemmas, categorized by their part of speech.
Category:Old Chinese phrases: Old Chinese groups of words elaborated to express ideas, not necessarily phrases in the grammatical sense.
Category:Requests concerning Old Chinese: Categories with Old Chinese entries that need the attention of experienced editors.
Category:Old Chinese symbols: Old Chinese written signs.
Category:Old Chinese templates: Old Chinese templates, which contain reusable wiki code that helps with creating and managing entries.
Category:Old Chinese terms by etymology: Old Chinese terms categorized by their etymologies.
Category:Terms derived from Old Chinese by language: Categories with terms that originate from Old Chinese.

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Appendix:Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction

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Appendix:Old Chinese basic vocabulary

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