KnowraOld ChineseLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to Old Chinese, each with the reason it gives.All 13Broader topic 3Related 2Narrower topic 6Compared with 2Mandarin ChineseNarrower topic: Mandarin descends from the long historical development of Chinese speech, not from a timeless standard.CantoneseNarrower topic: Cantonese preserves some features that scholars connect to earlier stages of Chinese.Wu ChineseNarrower topic: Wu retains features whose histories reach back to early Chinese sound systems.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.