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Two scripts, one still unread.
Also known as: Liao script
The script created for the Khitan language of the Liao state, in a large and a small form.
Write the Khitan language in two separate systems, the large script and the small script.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The small script is partly read and the large script is largely not, so the same language is recorded in two systems of which one is more tractable than the other — a natural experiment in decipherment.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Square characters resembling Chinese in construction, the large script written as individual characters and the small script clustering elements into blocks.