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Odysseus
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28 March 2012 at 11:23am | IP Logged

clumsy wrote:

I think Classical Chinese used 耶.
but I don't know if it's not just some ancient question particle.

Hmm. I've seen 耶 used as a question particle, but in the Classical Chinese texts I've been working on, 乎 seems to be more common as a question marker, and I've also seen 矣 and 哉 for exclamatory questions and a total lack of particle when the sentence includes a question word.

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