Yelü Diela ( Chinese: 耶律迭剌) was the younger brother of the Liao dynasty founder Yelü Abaoji. He invented the " Khitan small script" to accommodate the more agglutinative Khitan language around the year 925. The script was based partly on the earlier " Khitan large script" or Chinese-like logographic writing, but was also inspired by the vertically written Old Uyghur alphabet that was shown to him by an ambassador. [1]
References
- ^ History of Liao, Chapter 64 (《辽史 第六十四卷 表第二 皇子表》)
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Yelü Diela ( Chinese: 耶律迭剌) was the younger brother of the Liao dynasty founder Yelü Abaoji. He invented the " Khitan small script" to accommodate the more agglutinative Khitan language around the year 925. The script was based partly on the earlier " Khitan large script" or Chinese-like logographic writing, but was also inspired by the vertically written Old Uyghur alphabet that was shown to him by an ambassador. [1]
References
- ^ History of Liao, Chapter 64 (《辽史 第六十四卷 表第二 皇子表》)
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