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زبان چینی کلاسیک
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Classical Chinese is the written form of Chinese from the Sino-Tibetan language family, distinct from its earlier spoken varieties known as Old Chinese and Middle Chinese. It matters because it represents a major literary and intellectual tradition that shaped East Asian culture and continues to be studied for understanding Chinese history, philosophy, and literature.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- written language
- Subclass of
- written Chinese language
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- Wikimedia language code
- lzh
- Commons category
- Classical Chinese language
- writing system
- Chinese characters
- native label
- 文言文
- short name
- классикон китайаг
- different from
- Traditional Chinese
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
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