Khitan

Khi·tan

K5051940 (kē′tän′)n. pl. Khitan or Khi·tans 1. A member of a Mongol people who established the Khitan Liao dynasty in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the 10th century.2. The language of this people.

[Akin to Persian Khutan and Mandarin Qìdā (from Middle Chinese k^hit tan), ultimately from the Khitan ethnic self-designation of unknown meaning.]

Khitan

the language of the Khitans who, in ancient times, were nomads in the territories of the present-day Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and the Mongolian People’s Republic. Khitan is presumably related to the Mongolian language group. It is represented by inscriptions of the Khitan Liao Empire (tenth to 12th centuries), which were written in a special Khitan script known as “large” (as yet unstudied) and “small.” Graphically similar to Chinese, the “small” Khitan writing was not, however, hieroglyphic, but rather syllabic, with the symbols joined together in separate units to form a word.

REFERENCES

Predvaritel’noe soobshchenie o deshifrovke kidan’skogo pis’ma. Moscow, 1964. (With an article of the same title by V. S. Starikov and V. M. Nadeliaev.)
Tamura, J., and Y. Kobayashi. Tombs and Mural Paintings of Ch’ing-Ling Liao Imperial Mausoleums of 11th Century A.D. in Eastern Mongolia. vols. 1–2. Kyoto, 1952–53.
Menges, K. “Titles and Organizational Terms of the Qytań (Liao) and Qara-Qitaj (ši-Liao).” Rocznik orientalistyczny, 1953, vol. 17.

A. B. DOLGOPOL’SKII

单词	khitan
释义	Khitan Khi·tan K5051940 (kē′tän′)n. pl. Khitan or Khi·tans 1. A member of a Mongol people who established the Khitan Liao dynasty in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia in the 10th century.2. The language of this people. [Akin to Persian Khutan and Mandarin Qìdā (from Middle Chinese k^hit tan), ultimately from the Khitan ethnic self-designation of unknown meaning.] Khitan Khitan the language of the Khitans who, in ancient times, were nomads in the territories of the present-day Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and the Mongolian People’s Republic. Khitan is presumably related to the Mongolian language group. It is represented by inscriptions of the Khitan Liao Empire (tenth to 12th centuries), which were written in a special Khitan script known as “large” (as yet unstudied) and “small.” Graphically similar to Chinese, the “small” Khitan writing was not, however, hieroglyphic, but rather syllabic, with the symbols joined together in separate units to form a word. REFERENCES Predvaritel’noe soobshchenie o deshifrovke kidan’skogo pis’ma. Moscow, 1964. (With an article of the same title by V. S. Starikov and V. M. Nadeliaev.) Tamura, J., and Y. Kobayashi. Tombs and Mural Paintings of Ch’ing-Ling Liao Imperial Mausoleums of 11th Century A.D. in Eastern Mongolia. vols. 1–2. Kyoto, 1952–53. Menges, K. “Titles and Organizational Terms of the Qytań (Liao) and Qara-Qitaj (ši-Liao).” Rocznik orientalistyczny, 1953, vol. 17. A. B. DOLGOPOL’SKII
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