User:Sardislake/Middle Chinese

Middle Chinese is also known as Ancient Chinese. There are four tones in middle chinese, there is an "even","rising", "departing", and a stop tone.I think that the article is lacking modern sources and should be updated as such. Perhaps more can be found on grammar. Additionally, perhaps some more historical information could be added.

Middle Chinese had a structure much like many modern varieties (especially conservative ones such as Cantonese), with largely monosyllabic words, little or no derivational morphology, three tones, and a syllable structure consisting of initial consonant, glide, main vowel and final consonant, with a large number of initial consonants and a fairly small number of final consonants. Without counting the glide, no clusters could occur at the beginning or end of a syllable. Middle Chinese