Ba-Shu Chineseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Ba-Shu Chinese (traditional Chinese: 巴蜀語; Sichuanese Pinyin: Ba¹su²yu³; IPA: [pa˥su˨˩y˥˧]) or Old Sichuanese (Traditional Chinese: 蜀語), is an extinct Sinitic language spoken in what is now Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality of China. This language was first attested during the Western Han dynasty and represents one of the first splits from Old Chinese or Early Middle Chinese. This language largely went extinct during the Ming dynasty, where it was supplanted by Southwestern Mandarin, after settlement by people from other parts of China. The Sichuanese branch of Southwestern Mandarin maintains some of the inherited phonological features of Ba-Shu Chinese, especially the Minjiang dialect, nevertheless it is very different.