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Khitan scripts information


Khitan scripts may refer to one of two mutually exclusive scripts used by the Khitan people during the 10th–12th centuries:

  • Khitan small script, invented in about 924 or 925 CE by a scholar named Diela
  • Khitan large script, introduced in 920 CE by Abaoji, founder of the Liao Dynasty

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Khitan small script

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small script, the Khitans simultaneously also used a functionally independent writing system known as the Khitan large script. Both Khitan scripts continued...

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Khitan scripts

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Khitan scripts may refer to one of two mutually exclusive scripts used by the Khitan people during the 10th–12th centuries: Khitan small script, invented...

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Khitan large script

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large script, the Khitans simultaneously also used a functionally independent writing system known as the Khitan small script. Both Khitan scripts continued...

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Khitan people

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The Khitan people (Khitan small script: ; Chinese: 契丹; pinyin: Qìdān) were a historical nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited...

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Khitan language

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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...

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Jurchen script

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of scripts. After the Jurchen rebelled against the Khitan Liao dynasty and established the new Jin dynasty in 1115, they were using the Khitan script. In...

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Liao dynasty

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similarities to Chinese characters, the Khitan scripts are functionally unintelligible to Chinese readers, and neither scripts have been fully deciphered to this...

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Khitan

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China Khitan language, a now-extinct language once spoken by the Khitan people Khitan scripts (disambiguation), writing systems of the Khitan people...

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Qara Khitai

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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...

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Mongolian writing systems

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Brahmi script. The Khitan spoke another proto-Mongolic language and developed two scripts for writing it: Khitan large script and Khitan small script, logographic...

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List of Khitan inscriptions

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scripts were used by the Khitan people in northern China during the 10th through 12th centuries for writing the extinct Khitan language. The Khitan language...

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Chinese family of scripts

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are the Tangut script, Khitan large script, Khitan small script and its offspring, the Jurchen script, as well as the Yi script, Sui script, and Geba syllabary...

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List of writing systems

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Vietnamese Khitan large scriptKhitan Khitan small scriptKhitan Jurchen script – Jurchen Tangut script – Tangut Eghap (or Bagam) script Maya script – Chorti...

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Liao dynasty coinage

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Liao dynasty era coins have appeared in both Chinese and Khitan scripts. The coins in Khitan script do tend to have different character orders, Though these...

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Mongolic languages

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surviving evidence is very sparse, and Khitan, for which evidence exists that is written in the two Khitan scripts (large and small) which have as yet not...

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Khitan name

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Khitan names are the personal names of the Khitan people which ruled the Liao dynasty (907–1125) in ancient China and Kara-Khitan Khanate (1124–1218)...

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Undeciphered writing systems

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Proto-Elamite script Byblos syllabary Cypro-Minoan syllabary Sidetic script Ba–Shu scripts, 5th to 4th century BC. Khitan large script and Khitan small script – Khitan...

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History of the Khitans

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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...

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List of Jurchen inscriptions

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contrast with inscriptions in Khitan scripts, there are no known examples of stone-inscribed epitaphs in the Jurchen script. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap...

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Nova N 176

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manuscript is written in the Khitan large script, one of two largely undeciphered writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language during the 10th–12th...

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Regular script

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neo-clerical as well as regular scripts known as 魏楷; Wèikǎi; 'Wei regular' or 魏碑; Wèibēi; 'Wei stele'. Thus, the regular script is descended both from the...

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Clerical script

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clerical scripts from the late Warring States period to the early Han dynasty. Clerical scripts with these features are called 'Han script' (汉隶; 漢隸)...

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Kanji

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Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana. The characters have Japanese pronunciations;...

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ISO 15924

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for the representation of names of scripts, is an international standard defining codes for writing systems or scripts (a "set of graphic characters used...

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