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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.
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