Khitan alphabet - Khitan

…The Liao script used to write the Khitan language (an obsolete language). There are the Khitan Large Script, which is an ideographic script based on Chinese characters, and the Khitan Small Script, which uses both ideographic and phonetic forms. The Large Script was created by the Liao Emperor Taizu Yelu Aboji in 920 (Diaoshu 5), and the Small Script was created several years later by Taizu's younger brother, Di Bao, who learned it from a Uighur envoy. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "Khitan Large Alphabet" are listed below.

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…契丹語(死語)を表記した遼の文字。漢字を参考に作った表意文字である契丹大字と，表意字形と表音字形を混用する契丹小字がある。大字は遼の太祖耶律阿保機（やりつあぼき）が920年(神冊5)に創案し，小字は数年後，太祖の弟の迭剌（てつらつ）がウイグルの使者から学んで作ったと記録される。…

※「契丹大字」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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