Key facts
- Native to
- Northeastern China , southeastern Mongolia , eastern Siberia
- Region
- Northern and Eastern Asia
- Extinct
- literary form in 1244 with the death of Yelü Chucai , last person known who could speak and write Khitan
- Language family
- Serbi–Mongolic ? Para-Mongolic ? Xianbei ? Khitanic? Khitan
- Writing system
- Khitan large script and Khitan small script
- Official language in
- Liao dynasty , Qara Khitai
- Iso 639 3
- zkt
- Linguist list
- zkt
- Glottolog
- kita1247
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical language
- Subclass of
- Altaic
- Country
- Mongolia
- Image
- Khitan (Small Script).svg
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- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- writing system
- Khitan small script
- topic's main category
- Category:Khitan language
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