4th–13th-century Para-Mongolic language of Northeast Asia
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c. 1243 (Yelü Chucai, last person known who could speak and write Khitan)
Language family
Serbi–Mongolic ?
Para-Mongolic ?[1]
Khitan
Writing system
Khitan large script and Khitan small script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
zkt
Linguist List
zkt
Glottolog
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Khitan or Kitan ( in large script or in small, Khitai;[2] Chinese: 契丹語, Qìdānyǔ), also known as Liao, is an extinct language once spoken in Northeast Asia by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century). It was the official language of the Liao Empire (907–1125) and the Qara Khitai (1124–1218).
Khitan or Kitan ( in large script or in small, Khitai; Chinese: 契丹語, Qìdānyǔ), also known as Liao, is an extinct language once spoken in Northeast Asia...
through the Xianbei, Khitans spoke the now-extinct Khitanlanguage, a Para-Mongolic language related to the Mongolic languages. The Khitan people founded and...
The Khitan large script (Chinese: 契丹大字; pinyin: qìdān dàzì) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitanlanguage (the other was the...
The Khitan small script (Chinese: 契丹小字; pinyin: qìdān xiǎozì) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitanlanguage (the other was the...
up Khitan or khitan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Khitan or Khitai may refer to: Khitan (circumcision), the Islamic circumcision rite Khitan people...
dynasty (/ljaʊ/; Khitan: Mos Jælud; traditional Chinese: 遼朝; simplified Chinese: 辽朝; pinyin: Liáo cháo), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: Mos diau-d...
dynasty, the Jurchen language during the Jin dynasty (1115–1234), the Khitanlanguage during the Liao dynasty, and the Xianbei language during the Northern...
Jurchens (Manchu ancestors) – Jurchen language – Jurchen script The Khitans (Mongolic people) – Khitanlanguage – Khitan large and small scripts The Tanguts...
The history of the Khitans dates back to the 4th century. The Khitan people dominated much of northern China, Manchuria and the Mongolian Plateau. They...
influences from the Para-Mongolic Khitanlanguage, from Old Korean, and perhaps also from Chukotko-Kamchatkan and unknown languages of uncertain linguistic affiliation...
For Tabghach, the language of the founders of the Northern Wei dynasty, for which the surviving evidence is very sparse, and Khitan, for which evidence...
nomadic Mongolic people, the Khitans have been extinct, making research on their cultures difficult. Currently, the Khitanlanguage has largely not been deciphered...
Jeju language. Some linguists have included it in the Altaic family, but the core Altaic proposal itself has lost most of its prior support. The Khitan language...
used by the Khitan people in northern China during the 10th through 12th centuries for writing the extinct Khitanlanguage. The Khitanlanguage was in use...
language. The Khitanlanguage is also a Para-Mongolic language. Tuyuhun had previously been identified by Paul Pelliot (1921) as a Mongolic language....
喀喇契丹; pinyin: Kālā Qìdān or Chinese: 黑契丹; pinyin: Hēi Qìdān; lit. 'Black Khitan'), also known as the Western Liao (Chinese: 西遼; pinyin: Xī Liáo), officially...
northeastern China in the 12th–13th centuries. It was derived from the Khitan script, which in turn was derived from Chinese (Han characters). The script...
the Turkic population. The Khitanlanguage has been classified as para-Mongolic: distantly related to the Mongolic languages of the Mongols. Reportedly...
languages, like the Manchu language during the Qing dynasty, the Mongolian language during the Yuan dynasty, the Khitanlanguage during the Liao dynasty...
might means “left” in Khitanlanguage, or might be derived from Xiongnu's ruling tribe Xubu. The Zubu began paying tribute to the Khitan Empire after a campaign...
that are derived from the languages of ethnic groups other than Han Chinese: examples include "Cathay" from the Khitanlanguage, and Tabgach from Tuoba...
manuscript is written in the Khitan large script, one of two largely undeciphered writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitanlanguage during the 10th–12th...
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in large script or 
in small, Khitai;[2] Chinese: 契丹語, Qìdānyǔ), also known as Liao, is an extinct language once spoken in Northeast Asia by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century). It was the official language of the Liao Empire (907–1125) and the Qara Khitai (1124–1218).