Toward a decipherment and linguistic reconstruction of the 1101 A.D. Kitan Eulogy for Empress Xuanyi, with notes on Mongolic cognates: Lines 1–6
Toward a decipherment and linguistic reconstruction of the 1101 A.D. Kitan Eulogy for Empress Xuanyi, with notes on Mongolic cognates: Lines 1–6
Author(s): Andrew ShimunekSubject(s): Cultural history, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, 6th to 12th Centuries, Philology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Middle Kitan (ca. 907 – 1125); Mongolic; historical linguistics; script decipherment; philology; Xuanyi Inscription;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is the first in what aims to be a series of papers toward a new decipherment and linguistic reconstruction of the Kitan Assembled Script Eulogy for Empress Xuanyi of 1101 A.D. In my treatment of this inscription, I have attempted to juxtapose the Kitan text and its very roughly corresponding Chinese text as much as possible, to allow for greater accuracy in decipherment and reconstruction. This methodology has allowed me to identify several words with previously unnoticed Mongolic cognates.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 70/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 253-272
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
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