A lot of villages of Chinese are the account that calls X each village be, chinese speech produced change.
Alleged read today " each " , more adjacent in ancient time " " the pronunciation of the word, "X each village " it is some village actually.In other words, place name regards a kind of mouth ear as according to legend, put ancient target to the utmost, people faces the speech of universal set phrase to change not to grant to pay attention to commonly, still can read its pronunciation before. Later, the person that does not know used another word that can record original pronunciation to record it.
For instance, my home town has a place name to cry " boreal Zuo channel " , read Bei3 Qi1 Gou1 commonly. But actually, Zuo is a brook, get the effect of mandarin, the youth reads Xi1 commonly, so that some people record this place name when write into " " north 7 channel " .
Say now " " this word.
Moment of the Tang Dynasty of the Sui Dynasty, the pronunciation of this word is more adjacent today " Ga " , the scholar is below draft sound:
Ka of Gao Benhan system
Ka of king power system
Ka of system of Dong Tong Zuo
Ka of Zhou Fagao system
Ka of Li Fanggui system
And " each " the word is an entering tone word, the pronunciation of period of the Tang Dynasty of the Sui Dynasty is roughly:
K of ɑ of K of Gao Benhan system
K of ɑ of K of king power system
K of ɑ of K of system of Dong Tong Zuo
K of ɑ of K of Zhou Fagao system
Kak of Li Fanggui system
Chinese speech history go up, had happened " deuce yin and yang, join a group 3 times " historical phenomenon. The meaning is, that K is missing at the back of entering tone word, tonetic become divided arrives today in the four tones of classical Chinese phonetics of mandarin.
Then, each pronunciation produced such evolving: K ɑ K, Ko, Ke
And domestic pronunciation experienced Ka, Kia, the metabolic process of Jia.
Ok, in case the procedure looks not to understand irrespective, want to know only, each today's pronunciation very the pronunciation of ancient time resembling the home is.Bibliographical reference:
Chao Jizhou " in village name " each " the word traces to the source "
Li Bingze " in place name " each " the word is solved additionally "
