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The 13 pages that link to Old Chinese, each with the reason it gives.

• Classical ChineseCompared with: It is a spoken-language reconstruction, whereas Classical Chinese is a literary written norm.

• Oracle bone scriptRelated: The inscriptions preserve an early stage of the language, though their phonology remains partly uncertain.

• Mandarin ChineseNarrower topic: Mandarin descends from the long historical development of Chinese speech, not from a timeless standard.

• Chinese languageBroader topic: It is an ancestor of later Chinese varieties, not identical to their classical written form.

• Sinitic languagesBroader topic: Reconstructions of Old Chinese provide a starting point for tracing Sinitic language history.

• CantoneseNarrower topic: Cantonese preserves some features that scholars connect to earlier stages of Chinese.

• Middle ChineseCompared with: Its reconstructed sound system predates Middle Chinese and explains many later sound developments.

• Wu ChineseNarrower topic: Wu retains features whose histories reach back to early Chinese sound systems.

• Literary ChineseBroader topic: Literary Chinese reflects older linguistic stages but was not simply a record of contemporary speech.

• Yue ChineseNarrower topic: Yue descends through later stages of Sinitic, not directly from modern Mandarin.

• Min ChineseNarrower topic: Min preserves features used to investigate the ancestry of Chinese languages.

• Xiang ChineseNarrower topic: It provides a deeper historical backdrop for the ancestry of Sinitic groups.

• EryaRelated: Erya’s glosses provide evidence used in reconstructing early Chinese vocabulary.