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	Wikipedia: Khitan
		Ancestors of Khitans was the Yuwen clan of the Xianbei.
		The former was derived from Chinese, and the latter was apparently inspired by the Uighur alphabet.
		The Khitan language is Altaic, however, and its agglutinizing nature is not particularly suited to purely monosyllabic logographs.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/k/kh/khitan.html (267 words)

	Khitan - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Khitan, in Chinese Qidan (契丹 Pinyin: Qìdān), were an ethnic group which dominated much of Manchuria and was classified in Chinese history as one of the Tungus ethnic groups (東胡族 dōng hú zú).
		As the Khitan language is still almost completely illegible, it is difficult to create a detailed history of their movements.
		Ancestors of the Khitan were the Yuwen clan of the Xianbei, an ethnic group situated in the area covered by the modern Liaoning and Jilin provinces.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Khitans (360 words)

	Khitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Khitan, in Chinese Qidan (契丹 Pinyin: Qìdān), were an ethnic group who dominated much of Manchuria and classified in Chinese history as one of the Tungus ethnic groups (東胡族 dōng hú zú).
		The Khitan were known as خطا in Arabic (Khata) and are mentioned by Muslim chroniclers as they initially fought with Muslims and later converted to Islam.
		The Khitan language is most probably Mongolic, however, and its agglutinizing nature is not particularly suited to purely monosyllabic logographs.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/kh/khitan.html (275 words)

	Khitan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Khitan, 8th-century Tungusic or Mongol residents of the southern part of what is now Manchuria, northeastern China.
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /Khitan.html (79 words)

	Khitan scripts
		The Khitan people, who dominated a large chunk of Manchuria between 916 and 1125 AD, used two different scripts - the "large script", which came into use in about 920 AD, the "small script", which was reputedly created in about 925 AD by the Khitan scholar Diela, who was inspired by the Uighur alphabet.
		The two scripts were used in parallel and appear to have little in common in terms of the forms of the characters and the ways they were assembled into compound characters.
		Khitan, an extinct Altaic language which was once spoken in Manchuria.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/khitan.htm (173 words)

	Khitan language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Khitan language is a now-extinct language once spoken by the Khitan people.
		Both of the scripts remain to be connected to the Khitan spoken language.
		Although there are several clues to its origins, which might point to different origins, the Khitan language is most probably Mongolic, and its agglutinizing nature is not particularly suited to purely monosyllabic logographs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khitan_language (183 words)

	Chinese History - Liao Dynasty (Khitan) é¼ literature, thought, philosophy, and the Khitan script ...
		In recent years, more Khitan literature was unearthed from tombs in the old Liao region, but because the Khitan language is still not fully reconstructable, there are many problems in reading and interpreting Khitan language documents.
		This first script is called the Large Khitan Script and borrows many Chinese characters without changing their original appearance, while also other characters are derived from a Chinese character and are changed slightly, and a third group of characters has no Chinese origin or counterpart but was invented independently.
		But because the Khitan language is not related to the monosyllabic Chinese (one word - one syllable - one character) but belongs to the Altaic languages that are highly agglutinating (one word - many syllables) the Chinese logographic script does not provide an ideal writing system for Khitan.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Song/liao-literature.html (1041 words)

	Kilda Kelen - FrathWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The language of the Kïldamnï (gentile noun; individually, Kïldaï) ethnic group is a likely member of the League of Lost Languages, spoken today on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Siberia.
		Foreign scholars universally consider it to be an Altaic language -- the family consisting of the Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungusic language groups, and according to some, Korean or Japanese.
		The original Khitan "Large Script" and "Small Script" writing systems themselves seem to have died out by approximately 1300 and are documented in Kamchatka only by a few short and poorly-preserved inscriptions in stone.
	wiki.frath.net /Neo-Khitanese (1124 words)

	The origins and history of the Khitan - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		The Khitans (or "Qi Dan" in chnese) were a mongoloid ancient tribe that dwelled in the steppe of the Mongolia.
		Later the Khitan was attacked by the Tuoba tribe (拓跋部) and escaped towards Huang river region.
		Among the Khitan wall murals that we have found, there are quite a number depicting the process of breaking camp or returning to camp, showing that the Khitan did preserve their nomadic lifestyle to some extent.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=11974 (6342 words)

	Mongolian alphabet
		The Mongolian language historically has three writing systems that were used over the centuries.
		Two writing systems based on simplified Chinese ideograms and Sinogram-typed alphabetic block (see Hangul), respectively, were used to write the Mongolic language of Khitan, also used to write the Tungusic Jurchen language in their modified forms.
		The situation is somewhat comparable to the various dialects of English, which must represent 10 or more vowels with only 5 letters.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Mongolian_alphabet.html (234 words)

	Mongol Scripts
		Uighur is a Turkic language still spoken in Central Asia which has used several different alphabets over the centuries all derived from alphabets of people they traded with towards the Middle East.
		The former is a logographic script based on Chinese characters, and the latter, developed by a Khitan scholar named Diela, is a syllabic script influenced in part by Uighur with characters for each syllable combined into word groups.
		A detailed review of these languages and their corresponding scripts is beyond the scope of this article.
	www.viahistoria.com /SilverHorde/research/MongolScripts.html (2659 words)

	Khitan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Khitan (Chinese: 契丹; pinyin: Qìdān), were an ethnic group which dominated much of Manchuria and was classified in Chinese history as one of the Eastern proto-Mongolic ethnic groups Donghu (東胡族 dōng hú zú).
		There is no clear evidence of there being any descendant ethnic groups of the Khitan in modern-day Northeast China, but some recent genetic studies have tended to support the hypothesis that the Daur ethnic group of Inner Mongolia contains at least some direct descendants of the ancient Khitan [1].
		Although a number of the nobility of the Liao Dynasty escaped the area westwards towards Turkestan, establishing the short-lived Kara-Khitan or Western Liao dynasty, they were in turn absorbed by the local Turkic and Iranic populations and left no influence of themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khitan (399 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > What happened to Khitan people? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I think they assimilated with Mongols, because first of all, their language was almost the same if not the same as Mongols.
		The Khitan was a confederation of nomadic tribes living on the Mongolia steppe.
		Khitan is also thought to be the origin of the word Cathay, which is what Marco Polo called China in his journals after living there from 1275 to 1292.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t62096.html (1099 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Khitan
		To write down their language, the Khitan actually used two distinct scripts in parallel.
		Recall that Khitan was an Altaic language, and so it was highly polysyllabic (in contrast to Chinese's monosyllabic structure), so often words are written with more than one sign.
		The Khitan state fell at 1125 CE, but the two scripts continued to be used until 1191.
	www.ancientscripts.com /khitan.html (436 words)

	Liao Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Khitan were originally nomadic cattle breeders from the Siramuren Valley, a region where pastorial lifestyles were practiced.
		Due to the proximity of the Chinese, the Khitan were quick to become sinicized.
		The Khitan were also in contact with Japan and the Abassid empire, and the court of Baghdad once asked for a Khitan princess for marriage.
	enc.qba73.com /link-Liao_Dynasty (981 words)

	Let's Learn Manchu! - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		The script is known from fragments of manuscripts and inscriptions on monuments of the Jurchen empire, from the Sino-Jurchen glossary and documents of the Ming Bureau of Translators and from Ming inscriptions dating from 1413.
		For the first 200 years or so of the Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu was the main language of government in China and served as a lingua franca.
		By the mid 19th century many of the Manchus had adopted Chinese as their first language, however they continued to produce Manchu version of Chinese documents until the end of the dynasty and for sometime afterwards.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5295 (2039 words)

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		Wang was intelligent, literate and knew the Khitan language, rising to high ranks of general of palace guards, inspecting commissioner, and intermediary between the Song and Liao during tribute embassies.
		The Jurchens were Tungusic subjects of the Khitan Liao who rose rapidly to military might as they replaced its administration with the new dynasty of Jin (Tao 1976, pp.41-54).
		With the Khitan Liao, Jurchen Jin, Mongol Yuan, and Manchu Qing, residual tribal and nomadic elements modified the eunuch institution and made it less destructive than in the indigenous Chinese dynasties.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/scholars/jay/jay.htm (4424 words)

	Manchu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Manchu language belongs to the Tungusic language family, a subdivision of the Altaic language family.
		The Sanjiazi dialect is spoken in Sanjiazi villages in China and Sibe is spoken by the Sibe contemporary.
		The Manchu language originally began during the Chin Dynasty (1115 to 1234).
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/asia/manchuculture.html (501 words)

	Malgals, Jurchen and Manchus - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Note Bohai (Po'hai) was recorded to have possessed a written language, music and rituals, government and system, and it possessed five big cities, fifteen prefectures and sixty-two zhou (lesser prefectures).
		The Blackwater Jurchens who remained in the south were subordinate to the Khitans and were named 'acquaintance Jurchens'; or 'cooked Jurchens';, while the remaining Jurchens living in the north, near today's Heilongjiang River, would be named 'stranger Jurchens'; or 'raw Jurchens';.
		Since the Oghuz had the same Donghu roots as the Wuhuan and Kumoxi, and the Khitan were descended from the Xianbei [who were also Donghu], therefore the Khitan and the Jurchen were closely related.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=2740 (3984 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Jurchen
		But from 1115 AD to 1234 AD they rose to power and formed a kingdom called "Jiang" that occupies a large portion of northern China.
		The Jurchen also overthrew the kingdom of Khitan (of Inner Asia), but took and adopted the Khitan writing system.
		Khitan itself is poorly attested and remains undeciphered.
	www.ancientscripts.com /jurchen.html (218 words)

	Hmong language resources
		Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families...
		Khitan language Korean language Kyrgyz language L Linghua M Manchu language Maojiahua Miao language...
		This sample Pahawh Hmong font was developed by Vang Peng of the Hmong Language Institute (HLI Fresno branch) and further developed by Christina Eira (associate member of HLI Melbourne branch).
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Hmong.html (1122 words)

	Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Many Americans were exposed to this group of languages through the San language used in the 1984 film The Gods Must Be Crazy.
		Khmer Khmer stands for several things related to Cambodia: The Khmer people, the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong to The Cambodian language The Khmer Empire, which ruled over much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries.
		The Khitan language is Altaic, however, and it
	bonose.com /Group-120.html (1143 words)

	Medieval Languages Encyclopedia Article @ Didst.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		drag of Sunset Boulevard might require skills in five or more languages to read...
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	www.didst.net /encyclopedia/Category:Medieval_languages (216 words)

	Chinese character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In addition, many characters were adopted according to their meaning by the Japanese and Korean languages to represent native words, disregarding pronunciation altogether.
		Non-Chinese languages which have adopted sinography - and, with the orthography, a large number of loanwords from the Chinese language - are known as Sinoxenic, whether or not they still use the characters.
		Hanja is also extensively used in situations where ambiguity must be avoided, such as academic papers, high-level corporate reports, government documents, and newspapers; this is due to the large number of homonyms that have resulted from extended borrowing of Chinese words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_character (5906 words)

	Origin of the Name "China" - Message Board - ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Aside from this his having established uniform weights and measurments, written language, common currency, extensive road system, building the Great Wall and hundreds of Palaces had a lasting effect on the future of China.
		The word Cathay is derived from the Khitan language of a Manchurian/Mongolian peoples and is the english version of what Marco Polo heard on his adventures.
		I suppose it should be no surprise that the country, as old and as large as China with many dialects of its own, should have so many names translated variously into so many different languages.
	p220.ezboard.com /fhistoryworldfrm10.showMessage?topicID=35.topic (1305 words)

	43 Things
		Learn how to write my name in all languages (read all 2 entries…)
		Back in my childhood I collected my name in many languages (much before the internet era).
		the only problem with this goal is that every name you get eventually needs to be verified in case any internet joker gives you a false name/curse words in his language..
	www.43things.com /comments/thread/94970 (334 words)

	I have always wanted to do this on Learn how to write my name in all languages on 43 Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I don’t understand – The fact that Hangul is phonetic deosn’t help you much since you don’t know the language..
		I have attached a file with the correct spelling for you, on condition that your vovels are not pronounced like the English “o”.
		Bengali is a phonetic language, so we write as you would pronounce it.
	www.43things.com /entries/view/190054 (1061 words)

	Pseudo-Tungusic phonology
		Since this is more of an exercise in "creative parallel evolution" than free-form invention, I have a fairly fixed idea of the overall nature of the beast, but haven't done enough research yet on the actual details.
		For now, it's called "AYUPT", from "As Yet Unnamed Pseudo-Tungusic." I'm considering it to be a Northern Tungusic language that was greatly influenced by a Southern Tungusic language (Khitan, maybe?) c.
		Since the AYUPT-speakers are devout Commies, I'd like to eventually translate some bits of The Communist Manifesto into their language, rather than the Bible or Shakespeare.
	enamyn.free.fr /conlang/id51.html (757 words)

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