Bernhard Karlgren

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Bernhard Karlgren

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Sino-Tibetan languages
Proto-Sinitic
…reconstructed (1940) by the linguist Bernhard Karlgren to account especially for the language of the Shijing, an anthology of Chinese poetry compiled in the 6th–5th centuries bce, seems surprisingly complicated as compared to that of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. Probably some of the vowels can be explained as diphthongs or as combinations of…
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…reconstructed (1940) by the linguist Bernhard Karlgren to account especially for the language of the Shijing, an anthology of Chinese poetry compiled in the 6th–5th centuries bce, seems surprisingly complicated as compared to that of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. Probably some of the vowels can be explained as diphthongs or as combinations of…
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