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A branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family which is mostly spoken in China and consists of many spoken varieties, including the standard and most prominent variety, Mandarin. For non-linguistic questions about the Chinese language, visit our sister site Chinese Language Stack Exchange.

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To what extent has Middle Chinese been reconstructed?

While I'm certainly able to track etymologies of individual words to their Middle Chinese forms, see for example Example of Japanese's Borrowing from Middle Chinese, knowing isolated words is hardly satisfying … Can one learn Middle Chinese in the way one might learn Latin or Ancient Greek? How fully has the grammar, lexicon or syntax been recovered? …
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