Greeks in Ancient Central Asia: The Ionians (2019)
I&#x27;ve been really curious how linguists reconstruct ancient pronunciation for Chinese languages. In reading W. Sidney Allen&#x27;s books on ancient Greek and Latin pronunciation, there is a good deal of evidence from transliterations between Greek and Latin and common misspellings or spelling variants, but one has the luxury here of a phonological writing system.<p>Allen also cites ancient sources (mainly grammarians) who discuss pronunciation, so this is probably also a source used in reconstructing ancient pronunciations of Chinese languages? Or is the work based mainly in analyzing predictable linguistic change over time and projecting back in time?