Ōtake, Masami (2017) Reconstructing the Khitan vowel system and vowel spelling rule through the Khitan Small Script. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 70 (2). pp. 189-206. ISSN 0001-6446
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Abstract
This paper reconstructs the Khitan vowel system by analysing materials concerning the Khitan Small Script. First, the approximate phonetic values of the graphemes were determined by systematically comparing Khitan transcriptions of Chinese words with their original Chinese sounds and by analysing Khitan rhymes. Next, an exhaustive survey of two adjacent graphemes in a corpus elucidated the script’s spelling rule and thus were the accurate phonetic values determined. Finally, a comparative study based on the reconstructed values established regular vowel correspondences between Khitan and Mongolian. In conclusion, the author presents twelve Khitan vowel phonemes that are distinguished by four vocalic features.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom |
| Depositing User: | Ágnes Sallai |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2017 08:17 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2019 23:15 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/56021 |
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