Author: Bernhard Karlgren

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780282557638

Excerpt from Sound and Symbol in Chinese By such methods European science has been able although it is only recently that these problems have been seriously tackled - to form a fairly accurate picture of the Chinese language of the sixth century A. D. Concerning older stages, such as the language of the Confucian classics, older by 1000 or 2000 years, little has been so far estab lished for certain. We can have at present only a very vague idea of the sound-system of the oldest Chinese. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.