Old Chinese or Archaic Chinese, the ancient form of spoken Chinese
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His recent work, in collaboration with William H. Baxter, is a reconstruction of Old Chinese that builds on earlier scholarship and in addition takes into account paleography, phonological distinctions in conservative Chinese dialects (Min, Waxiang) as well as the early layers of Chinese loanwords to Vietnamese, Hmong-Mien and to a lesser extent, Tai-Kadai.
From this point on, he performed field studies of several Tai languages (including the Zhuang people's Longzhou and Wuming dialects), while at the same time conducting deep investigations into Old Chinese and Tibetan.
Shanrong (山戎) is Mountain's Nomad Chinese, or Rong (戎) Chinese in Mountain (山), Spring and Autumn Period, Shanrong lived in Central Plain, thus they is one of Old Chinese.
A 47 year old Chinese man named Tang Yongming assaulted them at the Drum Tower eight kilometres from the main Olympic site before leaping to his death from the 40-metre high balcony.
The association set up its headquarters at the old Chinese Chamber of Commerce building in Hill Street.
This is taken (following Sergei Yakhontov) to indicate that Old Chinese had labiovelar and labiolaryngeal initials but no labiovelar medial.
He is currently collaborating with Laurent Sagart at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris on an improved reconstruction of the pronunciation, vocabulary, and morphology of Old Chinese.
Among the participants was Gyaincain Norbu, the then 16 year old Chinese-approved 11th Panchen Lama, who was the figurehead of the forum, and made very rare public appearances.
In 2000, Alexander Vovin reanalyzed Pulleyblank's argument and found further support for it by utilizing the most recent reconstruction of Old Chinese phonology by Starostin and Baxter and a single Chinese transcription of a sentence in the language of the Jie (a member tribe of the Xiongnu confederacy).