https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU8ePRefUF0
(Reading starts 0:07) - *Earthly branch (not stem)Very dubious attempt at speaking Old Chinese. Oracle bone characters borrowed from an Indiana University p

https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/jiaguwen.htm
Oracle Bone Script (甲骨文) The oldest inscriptions that are recognised unequivocally as Chinese date from about 1200 BC and were found in Anyang, the capital of the Shang Dynasty (商朝 - 1600-1046 BC) in 1895. They consist of short texts inscribed on ox scapulae and turtle plastrons and are known as oracle bones (甲骨 - jiǎgǔ), and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone_script
Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC.Inscriptions were made by carving characters into oracle bones, usually either the shoulder bones of oxen or the plastra of turtles.The writings themselves mainly record the results of official divinations carried out on behalf of the Late Shang royal family.

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Oracle_Bone_Script
Oracle bone script (Chinese: 甲骨文; pinyin: jiǎgǔwén; literally "shell bone writing") refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters found on animal bones or turtle shells used in divination in ancient China.Referred to as oracle bones, the vast majority are ox and sheep scapulae and tortoise plastrons which record the pyromantic (divination by means of fire

https://www.comuseum.com/calligraphy/scripts/oracle-bone-script/
Oracle Bone Script. Oracle-bone script ( jiaguwen, 甲骨文), the earliest known form of systematic Chinese writing, dates from the fourteenth to eleventh century BC. The sharp beginning and end of each stroke relate to the script's origins in carving divination texts on tortoise shells and on the flat bones of certain animals. These ancient

https://www.worldhistory.org/Oracle_Bones/
Oracle Bones (also known as Dragon's Bones) were the shoulder blades of oxen or plastrons of turtles (the flat underside of the turtle's shell) which were used in the Shang Dynasty of China (c. 1600-1046 BCE) for divination. The symbols carved on the bones eventually became words and a recognizable Chinese script developed from this practice.. A fortune-teller would carve (later, paint

https://www.lovingchinese.com/chinese-characters-oracle-bone-inscriptions/
Oracle bone inscriptions are an ancient Chinese script, also known as "Qiwen", "Oracle bone inscriptions", "Yinxu script" or "tortoise shell and beast bone inscriptions". It is the earliest mature Chinese character that we can see. It mainly refers to the characters engraved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the Late Shang period. Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou dynasty.The latter part of the Zhou period saw a flowering

https://asia-archive.si.edu/learn/chinas-calligraphic-arts/oracle-bone-script/
View larger. Oracle-bone script ( jiaguwen ), the earliest known form of systematic Chinese writing, dates from the fourteenth to eleventh century BCE. The sharp beginning and end of each stroke relate to the script's origins in carving divination texts on tortoise shells and on the flat bones of certain animals. These ancient texts were used

https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-CUL-00001-00155/5
Over three thousand years old, the Chinese Inscribed Oracle Bones in the Hopkins Collection are by far the oldest written materials in Cambridge University Library. The oracle bone texts are the oldest extant documents written in the Chinese language. Inscribed on ox shoulder-blades and the flat under-part of turtle shells, they record questions to which answers were sought by divination at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone
Oracle bones (Chinese: 甲骨; pinyin: jiǎgǔ) are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron, which were used for pyromancy - a form of divination - in ancient China, mainly during the Late Shang period. Scapulimancy is the specific term if ox scapulae were used for the divination, plastromancy if turtle plastrons were used. A recent count estimated that there were about 13,000 bones with

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/reading-oracle-bones-and-writing-future-shang-dynasty-005610
Oracle bones (known in Chinese as 甲骨, transliterated as 'jiǎ gǔ', and literally translated as 'shells and bones') are a type of artifact best known for its association with the Shang Dynasty (roughly from 1600 BC to 1050 BC) of ancient China. As these artifacts were used for the purpose of divination, the bones came to be called

https://www.chineasy.com/decoding-the-sounds-of-the-past-a-look-at-historical-chinese-phonology/
By cross-referencing the initials (聲母/声母) and finals (韻母/韵母) on the rhyme tables, scholars can deduce the likely pronunciation of each Chinese character as it was spoken in Middle Chinese. This data, consolidated into categories called "rhyme classes," paints a vivid soundscape of the past, offering unparalleled insights

https://www.chinasage.info/oracle-bones.htm
Analysis showed that the inscriptions were associated with divination. The inscriptions on cattle bones and tortoise shells was identified as an early form of the written language used in the Chinese Bronze Age. The system of writing is called 甲 骨 文 Jiǎ gǔ wén (literally 'first/shell bone writing'). It is the earliest form of

https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub1/entry-5389.html
Dr. Eno wrote: "The inscriptions on the oracle texts are the earliest surviving examples of written language in China. Chinese scholars are well aware that writing emerged in Mesopotamia (cuneiform) and Egypt (hieroglyphics) as early as the late 4th millennium B.C., and, with an eye towards establishing an equivalent antiquity for the Chinese case, there have been a number of attempts to

https://archive.org/details/06-14822-19753
Oracle Explanation 甲骨文合集释文_text.pdf download 30.6M Oracle dictionary 甲骨文字典_text.pdf download

https://en.chinaculture.org/focus/focus/2013buzzwords/content_465085.htm
Oracle bone script refers to incised ancient Chinese characters found on oracle bones, which were animal bones or turtle shells used in divination in the Shang Dynasty (17 th - 11 th century BC) . Characters of the Shang Dynasty have been much developed, so Chinese characters might have emerged long before the dynasty, perhaps as early as in the New Stone Age about four to five thousand years ago.

https://www.thoughtco.com/oracle-bones-shang-dynasty-china-172015
Predicting the Future in Shang Dynasty, China. Oracle bones are a type of artifact found in archaeological sites in several parts of the world, but they are best known as a significant characteristic of the Shang dynasty [1600-1050 BC] in China. Oracle bones were used to practice a specific form of divination, fortune-telling, known as pyro

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseHistory/comments/o6z8kr/where_to_read_oracle_bones_written_content/
13 votes, 10 comments. Hello, Is there a place where I can read Oracle Bones/Jiaguwen/甲骨文 written content, preferably translated to English (or

https://www.chinesepod.com/dictionary/%E7%94%B2%E9%AA%A8%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97
English - Chinese Dictionary | Meaning of 甲骨文字 in English: oracle script, oracle bone character (an early form of Chinese script) | ChinesePod.com

https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Old_Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the Late Shang period. Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou dynasty.The latter part of the Zhou period saw a flowering

https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/chinese-oracle-bone-inscriptions
Oracle-bone inscriptions were excavated from Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province, China. They were records of making divination and praying to gods by late Shang people from 1400 B.C.-1100 B.C.. The materials used for divination were mainly cattle scapulas and tortoise shells, as well as other animal bones. Omens were deciphered from the cracks made by burning bones.

https://sonichits.com/video/Oracle_and_Bone/thoughts
Lyrics to Oracle and Bone thoughts: I just get lost In Time and Space Who should I trust? I'm not even sure of who I am Am I the only one in there? Or is someone