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Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn
Zhōngyuán Yīnyùn (; "The phonology of the Central Plains") is a rime book from the Yuan Dynasty compiled by Zhōu Déqīng (周德清) in 1324. An important work for the study of historical Chinese phonology, it testifies many phonolgical changes from Middle Chinese to Mandarin, such as the reduction and disappearance of final stop consonants and the reorganization of the tones.
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