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The Khitan large script (Chinese: 契丹大字; pinyin: qìdān dàzì) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language (the other was the Khitan small script). It was used during the 10th–12th centuries by the Khitan people , who had created the Liao Empire in north-eastern China.
Khitan or Kitan (in large script or in small, Khitai; Chinese: 契丹語, Qìdānyǔ), also known as Liao, is an extinct language once spoken in Northeast Asia by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century). It was the official language of the Liao Empire (907–1125) and the Qara Khitai (1124–1218).
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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.
Jun 6, 2023 · Welcome to the Wikisource project for Khitan language text. The Khitan language was written using two mutually exclusive scripts: Khitan large script ( ISO 15924 Kitl) and Khitan small script ( ISO 15924 Kits). Only Khitan small script is currently encoded in Unicode, so at present only Khitan small script texts are included on Wikisource.
The Khitan large script was one of two Khitan writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language. It was used during the 10th–12th centuries by the Khitan people , who had created the Liao Empire in north-eastern China.
the specific characteristics of Khitan Large and Small Scripts described by Janhunen (2012, pp. 108–109), the Khitan Large Script is excluded from the scope of investi-gation as of now, and the research is mainly concentrated on Khitan Small Script. As a first step towards the realisation of this plan, a temporary group has been
