Subject: Re: [jbm: Numbers in Ancient Chinese]

From: Boon Kang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 14:50:51 -0500

*** Reply to note of 02/22/92 22:49

    I don't know who made such claim that "Holo and Hakka are closer
    to classical Chinese" but I thought many students of Chinese
    linguistics are aware that a lot of ancient chinese pronunciations
    and vocabularies have been well preserved in Hakka and Minnan (or heluo)
    dialects. Many scholars have been using Haaka and Minnan dialects as
    studying tools of ancient Chinese linguistics and chinese history.

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