 Huang reset the parameters of the phonetic development of the Chinese language (" ") to nineteen consonants and twenty-eight vowels.Zhang Taiyan once said that no other work in history of Chinese linguistics, "Xiaoxue" ("", discipline that studies ancient Chinese) has ever reached the depth of Huang Kan. Huang further developed Zhang and Qian Xuantong's preliminary findings and published one of his most famous works "Nineteen Sounds of Ancient Phonology"《古音十九纽》in 1924.In the book, he broke the sounds down by certain manners of articulation