Re: P.S. (Chinese and stuff)

"Daniel A. Wier" wrote:

> Tang Dynasty (is this the Middle Chinese you mentioned?)
Yes, but there are too few in the file to be useful.

> Again, happy hunting and grunting...
Done.  I found 1839 character readings (1813 actual
characters) with Cantonese romanizations
ending in -p, -t, or -k and with Pinyin information available.
They corresponded to Mandarin tones as follows:

        12% to tone 1
        32% to tone 2
         4% to tone 3
        50% to tone 4

So everyone's intuitions were basically correct.  I probably made
some errors where there was a different number of Mandarin and
Cantonese readings for a character.

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