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Autodescription — Classical Chinese (Q37041)
description: language of the Sino-Tibetan language family in written form (ISO 639-3: lzh) as opposed to the spoken, known as Old Chinese (ISO 639-3: och) or Middle Chinese (ISO 639-3: ltc)
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zh-classical and lzh used by WMF[edit]
For Wikimedia language code (P424), I restored "zh-classical" as it was and still is used by WMF. However, I set it to normal rank as it's not the one used primarily. See User:Mr._Ibrahem/Language_statistics_for_items. I suppose eventually lzh should be preferred. Is my reading correct? --- Jura 07:24, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Currently https://lzh.wikipedia.org redirects to https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org, that's what I mean by saying that the latter is used primarily (there is no active Classical Chinese Wikinews, Wictionary, or Wikiversity). However, now I see that zh-classical is considered deprecated. OK, then maybe give lzh the preferred rank? --colt_browning (talk) 07:44, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Maybe. At least zh-classical shouldn't have preferred rank. Have a look at the Wikidata language statistics as well. --- Jura 11:06, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
- Jura I forced a preference due to the constraint issue for this property. Literary Chinese and Classical Chinese in general refer to the same written form. However, depending on the East Asian countries and the period where the term is used. Classical Chinese was the written form used in the imperial courts. Literary Chinese is written form of old spoken form that has been mostly replaced by modern day Chinese, often referred to as Bai hua (plain daily spoken Chinese (usually Mandarin (a dialect in Beijing area), developed in Ming dynasty). ShiehJ (talk) 13:38, 8 March 2021 (UTC)