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It was a bona fide spoken language at the time the Daodejing was written. Likely sounding very little like modern Chinese.
by canjobear 2y ago
It was a bona fide spoken language at the time the Daodejing was written. Likely sounding very little like modern Chinese.
- otabdeveloper4 2y agoIt was likely an inflected language at the time it was spoken, and they just left the tedious grammar bits out when writing.
- solidsnack9000 2y agoWell, probably not, no -- I'm pretty sure the Daodejing was written in a literary language quite distinct from any spoken language at that time. This used to be something readily found all over the world.