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Written Chinese was reformed in the beginning of 20^th^ century to be closer to the spoken language.

Before that, it would have been true except written language was so distant from spoken, I would call them almost different languages (but that's because I'm no linguist, and someone here already told me that writing is not a language at all anyway), so the only literate people were able to read literature of the old