Bernhard Karlgren
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Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren was a Swedish sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods. In the early 20th century, Karlgren cond
Bernhard Karlgren
Old Chinese
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Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory i
Bernhard Karlgren
…on rhyming in ancient Chinese poetry, then used them to create the first ever complete reconstructions of what are now called Middle Chinese and Old Chinese. Bernhard Karlgren was born on 15 October 1889 in Jönköping, Sweden. His father, Johannes Karlgren, taught Latin, Greek, and Swedish at the local high…
Inscription on the Kang Hou gui (late 11th century BC)
Shang dynasty oracle bone script on an ox scapula
Guodian Chu Slips (c. 300 BC) with transcriptions in modern characters