Middle Chinese

GPTKB entity

Properties (53)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical language
gptkbp:code finals
tonal system
initial consonants
medial glides
gptkbp:descendant Old_Chinese
gptkbp:hasCitations Southern_Chinese_dialects
Northern_Chinese_dialects
gptkbp:hasClimate vowel shifts
consonant weakening
final consonant loss
initial consonant clusters
tonogenesis
gptkbp:hasInfluenceOn gptkb:Korean_hanja
gptkb:Japanese_kanji
Vietnamese chữ Nôm
Sino-Xenic_vocabulary
gptkbp:hasSpecialty gptkb:Chinese_characters
gptkbp:hasVariants gptkb:Austronesian_languages
gptkb:Tai-Kadai_languages
Hmong-Mien languages
other_Sino-Tibetan_languages
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Middle Chinese
gptkbp:influencedBy Sinitic languages
gptkbp:isDocumentedIn Dictionaries
Qieyun
Rhyme books
Yunjing
gptkbp:isNotableFor historical significance
cultural influence
phonetic complexity
rich tonal system
gptkbp:isPartOf gptkb:East_Asian_linguistic_area
gptkb:Sino-Tibetan_language_family
Chinese_language_family
gptkbp:isRelatedTo gptkb:Xiang_Chinese
gptkb:Hakka_Chinese
gptkb:Mandarin_Chinese
gptkb:Min_Chinese
gptkb:Wu_Chinese
Cantonese
gptkbp:isStudiedIn linguists
historical linguistics
comparative linguists
historical phonologists
sinologists
gptkbp:isUsedIn poetry
historical texts
classical literature
scholarly works
gptkbp:precededBy Early_Modern_Chinese
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:China
gptkbp:timePeriod 5th to 12th centuries