Middle Chinese language (3c-13c) had a linguistic similarity with Tai-Kadal people and Austroasatic people and Hmong-mien.
And the above research metioned also, which means the Chinese tonal language appeared since 3century.
Unknown to Old Chinese, the existence of tonal accents was for the first time mentioned in the 5th century by Shen Yiieh (441-513).
In Middle Chinese (Mch.) there were four tone categories: A Ping-sheng , a level tone (which developed into Mandarin tone 1 or 2) . B Shang-sheng k , a rising tone (Mandarin tone 3) . C Ch'ii-sheng , a vanishing, i.e. falling tone (Mandarin tone 4) . D Ju-sheng A , an entering tone with a staccato effect, the word being abruptly stopped by a final consonant -p, -t, -k. (In Early Mandarin the words of this tone lost their final consonant and were distributed among the tones 2, 3 and 4, respectively according to the phonation of initials)
And it was proved by all Han chinese genetic admixture in the map. However, there is another gene still left in the map: Altaic
How to explain the Altaic factor in Chinese people?
He said,Sergei discovered that OCH(old Chinese) have an interesting stratum of Altaic borrowings which share three common features: "1. The Old Chinese words are usually attested at least starting with Early Zhou (only a few of them are attested later than 6th century B.C.). 2. For none of these words have any Sino-Tibetan parallels been proposed. 3. On the Altaic side, the words are well represented, particularly, in the east (Korean, Japanese and Tungus-Manchu)"[9]. Discussing the impact of this discovery, Sergei mentioned to me that the Neolithic Yangshao culture of the Huang He valley can be associated with those Altaic speakers. The contacts (not peaceful) began when the speakers of OCH reached the Huang He valley and met the local Altaic population.
1. OCH was not similar to sino-tibetan, which modern chinese language belongs to. The genetic admixture of map also shows non sino-tibetan(violet color) in Han chines.
2. The yangshao was speaking Altaic, which is also proved to be Hg N (how did he know that!!!!)
==> Thus, shang and Zhou people might be nomad Q speaking Altaic being similar to R language. B/C Q was living in Altai area, being genetically close to R.
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