거란대자 자료와 연구현황

Data and Research Status of the Khitan Large Scripts

The study of the Khitan Large Scripts is important for the study of the Khitan Small Scripts, Khitan language, Khitan history, and Khitan culture. However, there are not many data on the Khitan Large Scripts, and access to the data is limited, so there are many difficulties in the study. There are about 20 materials such as the Epitaph and Mural letter, and about 60 other materials. However, data of the Khitan Large Scripts are still being discovered steadily, so this number is expected to increase. When the Khitan Large Scripts was first enacted, it is known that about 3,000 characters were enacted. Since many variant letters are included, the actual number may decrease. In addition, the Khitan Large Scripts is recognized as a syllable pinyin character with ideology, and in recent studies, letters with phonemic characteristics also appear. Since the estimate of the sound price of the Khitan Large Scripts is currently 240 characters, it is analyzed about 10% compared to the number of characters. In the future, it will be possible to analyze more characters through comparisons with the Epitaph, the history of Khitan, and comparisons with the Jurchen characters. In order to deepen the study of the Khitan Large Scripts, it is necessary to index the Khitan Large Scripts vocabulary. The analysis of the grammatical form of the Khitan Large Scripts is at the beginning. Although research on the grammatical form of the Khitan Small Script is still insufficient, some of the grammatical forms of the Khitan Small Script have been revealed. Compared to the Khitan Small Script, the Khitan Large Scripts has less research manpower and research data.The study of the Khitan characters originated from the Khitan Small Script, but by default, the Khitan Large Scripts are not easy to interpret because they are close to syllable characters rather than phoneme. It is also because of the characteristics of characters that are difficult to access without knowledge of Chinese characters. However, I believe that the day when the data related to the Khitan Large Scripts will be supplemented and the research on the Khitan Small Script is deepened, the day when the interpretation of the Khitan Large Scripts will take place will not be long.