There's considerable debate about this; the earliest Old Chinese inscriptions found date to around 1200 BC. Some linguists believe Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, while others claim that Chinese evolved independently and has no link to Tibetan languages.
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Yes. The morden Chinese language.
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