New Materials on the Khitan Small Script - A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu & Yelü Xiangwen

This volume contains a state-of-the-art survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents. The texts are reproduced in the original script, in transcription as well as in facsimile, and are supported by a preliminary translation, linguistic comments and index. This is the first ever critical edition of Khitan texts, and the two epigraphic documents analysed in the volume constitute a substantial addition to the extant corpus of Khitan Small Script materials.

Product details

• Authors: Juha Janhunen, Yingzhe Wu
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2010
• EAN: 9781906876500
• ISBN: 978-1-906876-50-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Languages of Asia
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics