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Citation Information
14 • PROLOGUE.
XV., p. 28 n. • Of the Khitán but one inscription was known and
no key.
Prof. Pelliot remarks, Bul. Ecole franr. Ext. Orient, IV., July-
Sept., 1904 : " In fact a Chinese work has preserved but five
k'i-tan characters, however with the Chinese translation," He
writes to me that we do not know any k'itan inscription, but half
a dozen characters reproduced in a work of the second half of
the fourteenth century. The Uíghúr alphabet is of Aramean
origin through Sogdian ; from this point of view, it is not
necessary to call for Estranghelo, nor Nestorian propaganda.
On the • other hand we have to-day documents in Uíghúr
writing older than the Kudatku Bilik.
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