====== Khitan scripts ======

The //Khitan// people, who dominated a large part of //Manchuria// (an area mostly in Northeast China today). between 916 and 1125 AD, used two different scripts - the 'large script', which came into use in about 920 AD, and the 'small script', which was reputedly created in about 925 AD by the //Khitan// scholar //Diela//, who was inspired by the Uighur alphabet.

>__Although some parts of the scripts have been deciphered, there is no general agreement on the meaning of the majority of the scripts,  __which are examples of the writing systems for the now-extinct //Khitan// language, used in the 10th-12th century by the //Khitan// people who had created the //Liao Empire// in north-eastern China.  
>\\ Source [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khitan_scripts|wikipedia]]

Sets of examples of the two variants, including logograms, syllabograms and possibly some phonograms, can be [[http://www.omniglot.com/writing/khitan.htm|viewed here]]