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- Khitan Proposed naming conventions: Ketuyu (可突于, d. 734) such as Pinyin name (Chinese character, b. date of born-d. date of death, r. date of reign)
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There is really no evidence that the Kitan small script is derived from the Uygur script. It is possible (and even likely) that it was inspired by the Uygur script and/or the runiform Turkic script, but it was not "derived" from the Uygur script. -Andrew
Also, in fact, a fair number of Kitan graphemes have been deciphered, and there is a decent-sized corpus of words that have been reconstructed with relative accuracy. Therefore, it is better to say that the Kitan scripts have only been partially deciphered, although, surely, much work remains to be done. Nevertheless, we must give credit to all the scholars who have initiated the decipherment process, and who have opened up the door (if only a small crack) to the world of the Kitan language. -Andrew
We should probably mention that Diela was a Kitan prince, and not just a "scholar".
