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Recent years have brought to daylight a considerable number of previously
unknown epitaphic documents in the two Khitan scripts — the Khitan large
script and the Khitan small script. A preliminary summary of the new discoveries
was published just a few years ago by the Inner Mongolian scholars Wu
Yingzhe, Buyandelger and Jiruhe (2009), but the situation changes rapidly as important
new material is being discovered on an almost annual basis. At the same
time, there has been a surge of new literature on the Khitan scripts and documents.
In particular, rapid progress has been made in the decipherment of the Khitan small
script. An important summary of the current state of knowledge was published by
Daniel Kane (2009)...