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of Old Chinese, with the Tibeto-Burman languages distinguished by the merger of the mid-central vowel with . The other vowels are preserved by both, with some alternation between and , and between and .

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The earliest known written records of the Chinese language were found at the Yinxu site near modern Anyang identified as the last capital of the Shang dynasty,

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