Talk:Jin (linguistics)

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What about the theory that disyllablic morphemes descended from Old Chinese consonant clusters?

Yeah, some of them did, like 角 > 角落 -- ran (talk) 00:54, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

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I wonder if monolingual speakers of Mandarin can understand Jin. Something about mutual intelligibility should be mentioned here, as this is an important criterion for claiming a variety of speech is an independent language and not just a dialect. --156.56.153.51 19:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] reconstruction

The examples of reconstruction look odd, for example, pəʔ ləŋ < 蹦 pəŋ "hop". The old monosyllabic form should be something like *pləŋ, with initial consonant cluster, if you believe that the current disyllabic form comes from a monosyllabic one.--K.C. Tang 02:26, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] bullshit meter

i'm sorry, but this page (and the glossika page it's base on) sets off my bullshit meter. a single feature such as preservation of final glottal stop cannot by itself make a dialect into a language. is there any other evidence for this? Benwing (talk) 04:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)