The Sound of the Para-Mongolic / Khitan language (Numbers, Words & Sample Text)
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Native to: Northeastern China, southeastern Mongolia, eastern Siberia
Region: Northern
Extinct: c. 1243 (Yelü Chucai, last person known who could speak and write Khitan)
Language family: Serbi–Mongolic (Para-Mongolic)
also known as Liao, is a now-extinct language once spoken in northeast Asia by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century). It was the official language of the Liao Empire (907–1125) and the Qara Khitai (1124–1218).
Khitan appears to have been related to the Mongolic languages; Juha Janhunen states, “The conception is gaining support that Khitan was a language in some respects radically different from the historically known Mongolic languages. If this view proves to be correct, Khitan is, indeed, best classified as a P