Abstract
In the fourth part of this series of papers the authors investigate the way how the Khitan Small Script rendered the dental stops in initial position. They conclude that the main opposition was between the postaspirated and not postaspirated dental stops.
Highlights
2 We offer our sincere thanks to the anonymous reviewers, many of their suggestions were of great help
As we can see from the above material, in Khitan the graphical representation of the dental stops is alternating between and
If we look into the Khitan representations of the Chinese contemporary phonemes, we can see the following: Khitan phoneme
Summary
As we can see from the above material, in Khitan the graphical representation of the dental stops is alternating between and . The same word is sometimes written with and in other cases with . This is an orthographical problem and is not representing a phonological one. If we look into the Khitan representations of the Chinese contemporary phonemes, we can see the following: Khitan phoneme
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