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The Kitan language and script / Daniel Kane.
- Title
- The Kitan language and script / Daniel Kane.
- Author
- Kane, Daniel.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
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- Description
- xiv, 305 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The Kitans established the Liao dynasty in northern China, which lasted for over two centuries (916-1125). In this survey the reader will find what is currently known about the Kitan language and scripts." "The language was very likely distantly related to Mongolian, with two quite different scripts in use. A few generations after their state was defeated, almost all trace of the Kitan spoken and written languages disappeared, except a few words in Chinese texts. Over the past few decades, however, inscriptions from the tombs of the Liao emperors and the Kitan aristocracy have been at least partially deciphered, resulting in a significant increase of our knowledge of the Kitan lexicon, morphology and syntax."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section eight, Central Asia, 0169-8524 ; v.19 = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Abt. 8, Central Asia
- Uniform Title
- Handbuch der Orientalistik. Achte Abteilung, Handbook of Uralic studies v. 19.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-293) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9789004168299
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library