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Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Volume/Issue:
Volume 70: Issue 2
Koreanic loanwords in Khitan and their importance in the decipherment of the latter
Author:
Alexander Vovin EHESS/CRLAO, Paris 54 Bd Raspail 75006 Paris, France

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Pages:
207–215
Online Publication Date:
Jun 2017
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2017
Article Category:
Journal Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/062.2017.70.2.4
Keywords:
Khitan; Late Old Korean; Middle Korean; decipherment; reconstruction
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In this article I am surveying several possible loanwords from Koreanic languages (probably Koguryǒ and/or Bo-hai) into the Khitan language. Apart from explaining the origin of some of the Khitan words that have no Mongolic, other Central Asian, or Chinese etymologies, I will demonstrate that these loanwords can shed light on the decipherment of Khitan characters with unknown readings, and therefore advance the reconstruction and reading of the Khitan language itself.

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Print ISSN:
0001-6446
Online ISSN:
1588-2667
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