Quellant | Oracle Bone Text - Old Chinese Spoken (上古漢語) @quellant6937 | Uploaded January 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
(Reading starts 0:07) - *Earthly branch (not stem)
Very dubious attempt at speaking Old Chinese. Oracle bone characters borrowed from an Indiana University paper from 2010.
Old Chinese is said to be atonal. I'm unsure if there was vocalic stress. Maybe all the final stops should be unreleased / inaudible.
Columns are:
Regular Script, Small Seal Script, Oracle Bone, IPA Translit., and English literal
English idiomatic translation underneath.
Baxter-Sagart includes emphatic consonants in their reconstruction. For some words I prefer the Zhengzhang version. Most Chinese characters on Wiktionary feature both as options with a bearing on the original sounds.
(Reading starts 0:07) - *Earthly branch (not stem)
Very dubious attempt at speaking Old Chinese. Oracle bone characters borrowed from an Indiana University paper from 2010.
Old Chinese is said to be atonal. I'm unsure if there was vocalic stress. Maybe all the final stops should be unreleased / inaudible.
Columns are:
Regular Script, Small Seal Script, Oracle Bone, IPA Translit., and English literal
English idiomatic translation underneath.
Baxter-Sagart includes emphatic consonants in their reconstruction. For some words I prefer the Zhengzhang version. Most Chinese characters on Wiktionary feature both as options with a bearing on the original sounds.
