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Khitan

extinct language once spoken in Northeast Asia by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century CE)
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Summary

Khitan is a language[1]. Khitan ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (823 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Khitan is in the country of Liao dynasty[3].
  • Khitan is in the country of Qara Khitai[4].
  • Khitan is in the country of Jin dynasty[5].
  • Khitan is in the country of People's Republic of China[6].
  • Khitan is in the country of Mongolia[7].
  • Khitan's instance of is recorded as language[8].
  • Khitan's instance of is recorded as historical language[9].
  • Khitan is a type of Altaic[10].
  • Khitan's writing system is recorded as Khitan large script[11].
  • Khitan's writing system is recorded as Khitan small script[12].
  • Khitan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Khitan language[13].
  • Khitan's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ZKT[14].
  • Khitan's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[15].

Why It Matters

Khitan ranks in the top 2% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (823 views/month).[2] Khitan has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Khitan is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Mongolia People's Republic of China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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