Langenesis

Sino-Tibetan family

Proto-Min

c. 100 BCE – 900 CE Reconstructed

Proto-Min (c. 100 BCE – 900 CE) is a reconstructed Sino-Tibetan language. It has 2 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Sino-Tibetan → Proto-Sinitic → Old Chinese → Proto-Min.

See Proto-Min on the interactive map

Ancestor of the Min varieties, which split off before Middle Chinese and preserve Old Chinese distinctions absent from the Qieyun system. Dating is approximate (Han period settlement of Fujian).

Lineage

  1. Proto-Sino-Tibetanc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Siniticc. 1,500 BCE – 1,250 BCE
  3. Old Chinese1,250 BCE – 25 CE
  4. Proto-Minc. 100 BCE – 900 CE

Descendants 2

Sister languages 2

Also descended from Old Chinese.

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