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Walter Simon

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Old Chinese and Old Tibetan vocabulary

  • Distribution of the Sino-Tibetan languages
    In Sino-Tibetan languages: Phonological correspondences

    …and Old Tibetan made by Walter Simon in 1929, although limited in some ways, pointed to enough sound resemblances in important items of basic vocabulary to eliminate the possibility of coincidental similarities between unrelated languages. A few examples of similar words in Old Tibetan and Old Chinese, respectively, follow: “bent,”…

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