再谈近代官话的“标准音”

A New Observation on Standard SoundSystem of the Old Mandarin

旧时代的共同语不同于今天的普通话,没有形成严格的标准音,不同地区的人们所趋奉的“标准”各有不同。文人并不十分重视官话,难于建立起全国统一的标准音。非南非北的音系仅仅是纸面上的系统而不是现实生活中使用的系统。

Some linguists in early 20 century mentioned that various standard soundsystems had been used in different areas, and they were not spoken language but literary language that were regarded as the noble language by literate stratum. In the feudal age there was no perfect condition to carry out an unique standard sound-system, and people used Old Mandarin upon a lenient basic but did not limit it to a single-site dialect.