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OldBoring wrote:Yes, as people usually read Classical Chinese with modern Mandarin pronunciation.
vijayjohn wrote:OldBoring wrote:Yes, as people usually read Classical Chinese with modern Mandarin pronunciation.
Don't people read it using the pronunciation from other modern dialects/language varieties anymore? Or is this becoming more rare due to those language varieties dying out?
Karavinka wrote:Long post short, do whatever you feel comfortable. You can't go any wronger than the Japanese.
Karavinka wrote:Wenyan
子曰。 「学而時習之。不亦説乎。 有朋自遠方来。不亦楽乎。 人不知而不慍。不亦君子乎。」
Mandarin
Zǐ yuē. `Xué ér shí xí zhī. Bù yì shuō hū. Yǒupéng zì yuǎnfāng lái. Bù yì lè hū. Rén bùzhī ér bù yùn. Bù yì jūnzǐ hū.'
Cantonese
zi2 joek6 。 「 hok6 ji4 si4 zaap6 zi1 。bat1 jik6 syut3 fu4 。 jau5 pang4 zi6 jyun5 fong1 loi4 。bat1 jik6 lok6 fu4 。 jan4 bat1 zi1 ji4 bat1 wan3 。bat1 jik6 gwan1 zi2 fu4 。」
Korean
자왈. 학이시습지. 불역열호. 유붕자원방래. 불역락호. 인부지불원. 불역군자호.
ja wal. hak i si seup ji. bul yeok yeol ho. yu bung ja won bang rae. bul yeok rak ho. in bu ji bul won. bul yeok gun ja ho.
Japanese
子曰く、 「学びて時に之を習ふ。亦説(よろこ)ばしからずや。 朋有り、遠方より来たる。亦楽しからずや。 人知らずして慍(うら)みず、亦君子ならずや。」
shi iwaku, manabite tokini korewo manabu, mata yorokobashikarazuya. tomo ari, enbouyori kitaru, mata tanosikarazuya. hito sirazusite uramizu, mata kunshi narazuya.
Karavinka wrote:vijayjohn wrote:OldBoring wrote:Yes, as people usually read Classical Chinese with modern Mandarin pronunciation.
Don't people read it using the pronunciation from other modern dialects/language varieties anymore? Or is this becoming more rare due to those language varieties dying out?
Quite late a response, but people who read Wenyan do so in whichever variety of phonetics they feel most comfortable in, because... compared to the actual Old or Middle Chinese phonetics, everyone's wrong anyways. I know there are still many Southern Chinese readers who insist the Wenyan poetry should be read in theirs, as the intended poetic structures such as rhyme are better represented in their phonetics than in Mandarin. Korea and Japan still read them in their ways, and I assume the same for the Vietnamese Han-Nom readers.
Pinyin and Jyutping automatically generated. I know 説 should not be shuō because it's a textual variant of 悅 in this context, but I'm not going to fix it because I'm lazy and I can't touch Canto in the first place. Should still suffice as an example. Hopefully.
Wenyan
子曰。 「学而時習之。不亦説乎。 有朋自遠方来。不亦楽乎。 人不知而不慍。不亦君子乎。」
Mandarin
Zǐ yuē. `Xué ér shí xí zhī. Bù yì shuō hū. Yǒupéng zì yuǎnfāng lái. Bù yì lè hū. Rén bùzhī ér bù yùn. Bù yì jūnzǐ hū.'
Cantonese
zi2 joek6 。 「 hok6 ji4 si4 zaap6 zi1 。bat1 jik6 syut3 fu4 。 jau5 pang4 zi6 jyun5 fong1 loi4 。bat1 jik6 lok6 fu4 。 jan4 bat1 zi1 ji4 bat1 wan3 。bat1 jik6 gwan1 zi2 fu4 。」
Korean
자왈. 학이시습지. 불역열호. 유붕자원방래. 불역락호. 인부지불원. 불역군자호.
ja wal. hak i si seup ji. bul yeok yeol ho. yu bung ja won bang rae. bul yeok rak ho. in bu ji bul won. bul yeok gun ja ho.
Japanese
子曰く、 「学びて時に之を習ふ。亦説(よろこ)ばしからずや。 朋有り、遠方より来たる。亦楽しからずや。 人知らずして慍(うら)みず、亦君子ならずや。」
shi iwaku, manabite tokini korewo manabu, mata yorokobashikarazuya. tomo ari, enbouyori kitaru, mata tanosikarazuya. hito sirazusite uramizu, mata kunshi narazuya.
do_shahbaz wrote:zǐ yüat:
hauk nhi dzhi dzip zhi
but yiak yüat hu
hiěubheng dzì hüǎnfong loi
but yiak lok hu
nhin butdri nhi but ǜn
but yiak günzǐ hu
vijayjohn wrote:do_shahbaz wrote:zǐ yüat:
hauk nhi dzhi dzip zhi
but yiak yüat hu
hiěubheng dzì hüǎnfong loi
but yiak lok hu
nhin butdri nhi but ǜn
but yiak günzǐ hu
Is this in Ciet'im?
do_shahbaz wrote:vijayjohn wrote:do_shahbaz wrote:zǐ yüat:
hauk nhi dzhi dzip zhi
but yiak yüat hu
hiěubheng dzì hüǎnfong loi
but yiak lok hu
nhin butdri nhi but ǜn
but yiak günzǐ hu
Is this in Ciet'im?
One version thereof.
vijayjohn wrote:Tbh, I expected something a bit like that, too (not full on'yomi, though). Maybe there are other things that the Japanese read in ways that are more faithful to the original Classical Chinese? Idk.
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