| Proto-Mandarin | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | China |
| Region | Medieval China |
| Era | Evolved into Mandarin Chinese and possibly other and Chinese dialects |
| Language family | |
| Writing system | Seal Script, Clerical Script, Kaishu, Semi-cursive script, Grass script, Phagspa, Hangul |
| Official status | |
| Official language in | Song Dynasty |
| Regulated by | No official regulation |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Proto-Mandarin or Late Antiquity Chinese is a term that can be used to designate any earlier form of the most widely-spoken Chinese dialect, known in English as Mandarin; it's the descendant of "late Middle Chinese" in the Song Dynasty. "Early Mandarin" is the common name for the sound system described by the rhyme dictionary Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn (中原音韻, lit. Sounds and Rhymes of the Central Plains) of the later Yuan dynasty, used for rhyming of Zaju (雜劇) of that time.
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