Kitan

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The Khitan language (also known as Liao and Kitan; Chinese: 契丹語) is a now-extinct language once spoken by the Khitan people (388–1243AD). Khitan is generally deemed to be genetically linked to the Mongolic languages. It was written using two mutually exclusive writing systems known as the Khitan large script and the Khitan small script. The language was the official language of the Liao Dynasty (907–1125) and Kara-Khitan Khanate (1124–1218). Janhunen states A better term for Khitan than Mongolic would be Para-Mongolic, implying that it was probably a language collateral to the ancestor of all the Mongolic languages. Presently the theory of the Mongolic, rather than Tungusic, affiliation of Khitan is more and more commonly accepted by both eastern and western scholars.
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Names (more)

[cv] Кидань чĕлхи
[en] Khitan language
[fi] Kitaanin kieli
[hi] ख़ितानी भाषा
[hu] Kitaj nyelv
[id] Bahasa Khitan
[ko] 거란어
[mk] Кидански јазик
[pl] Język kitański
[ru] Киданьский язык
[th] ภาษาคีตัน
[zh] 契丹語

Language type : Extinct

Language resources for Kitan

Open Languages Archives

Wiktionary - Category:Khitan language [en]

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ISO 639-3 : zkt

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