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    The Khitan large script (Chinese: 契丹大字; pinyin: qìdān dàzì) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language (the other was the...
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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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    The Khitan small script (Chinese: 契丹小字; pinyin: qìdān xiǎozì) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language. It was used during...
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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 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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    the Khitan script, which in turn was derived from Chinese (Han characters). The script has only been decoded to a small extent. The Jurchen script is part...
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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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  • Khitan people, for the now-extinct Khitan language Khitan large script, a logographic writing system Khitan small script, a semi-syllabic and logographic...
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    list of Khitan inscriptions comprises a list of the corpus of known inscriptions written in the Khitan large script and the Khitan small script. These...
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    BC Proto-Elamite script Byblos syllabary Ba–Shu scripts, 5th to 4th century BC. Khitan large script and Khitan small scriptKhitan, 10th century, not...
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    Qara Khitai (redirect from Kara-Khitans)
    Yelü clan of the Khitan people. Being a rump state of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty, Western Liao was culturally Sinicized to a large extent, especially...
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  • the presence of 2 different writing systems - the Khitan large script and the Khitan small script, make research more difficult. The problem is compounded...
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    Liao dynasty (redirect from Khitan dynasty)
    the Khitans had no written language. In 920 the first of two Khitan scripts, the Khitan large script, was developed. A second script, the Khitan small...
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    Nôm - Vietnamese Khitan large scriptKhitan Khitan small scriptKhitan Jurchen script – Jurchen Tangut script – Tangut Sui script – Sui language Yi...
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    Memorial for Yelü Yanning (category Khitan inscriptions)
    language. Dated 986, it is written in the Mongolic Khitan language using the Khitan large script. With 19 lines and 271 characters it was found in 1964...
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    Nova N 176 (category Khitan language manuscripts)
    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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  • Anzu (given name) Kyo (given name) Khitan scripts "Country" for Khitan large script "Ox" for Khitan small script To Father (杏), 2013 Chinese film starring...
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  • ISO 15924 (redirect from ISO script code)
    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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  • Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support...
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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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  • Yelü Diela (category 10th-century Khitan people)
    "Khitan small script" to accommodate the more agglutinative Khitan language around the year 925. The script was based partly on the earlier "Khitan large...
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  • Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun (category Linguists of Khitan)
    ethnicity who is known for her studies of the Manchu, Jurchen and Khitan languages and scripts. She is also known as a historian of the Liao and Jin dynasties...
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    Abaoji (Taizu) See also List of the Khitan rulers Other Buraq Hajib Eagle hunting Khitan large script Khitan small script Xu Elina-Qian, 258 Xu Elina-Qian...
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  • List of Khitanologists (category Linguists of Khitan)
    study of the Khitan people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing systems (Khitan large script and Khitan small script). List of sinologists...
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    for the Khitan large script for use on Khitan-language seals. The Western Xia dynasty also developed a seal-script form of the Tangut script inspired...
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  • Gupta script Hamnosys Iban iConji Indus Valley script IsiBheqe soHlamvu Kadamba Kaddare Kaida Karani Kherinci Khamti Khati baburi Khitan large script Khom...
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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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    of the Unicode Consortium website. For some scripts on the Roadmap, such as Jurchen and Khitan large script, encoding proposals have been made and they...
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    created scripts for their languages that were inspired by Chinese characters, but did not use them directly—these included the Khitan large script, Khitan small...
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  • traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE, with the sets of forms and norms more...
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