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Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ia on abegging tour. On being shown the original MS. of the Kudatku Bilik, they readthe character easily, whilst much to their astonishment they could not understand aword of what was written. This Uighur is the basis of the modern Mongol andManchu characters. (Cf. E. Bretschneider, Mediawal Researches\ I. pp. 236, 263.)— H. Y. and H. C. (At the village of Keuyung Kwan, 40 miles north of Peking, in the sub-prefectureof Chang Ping, in the Chih-li province, the road from Peking to Kalgan runs beyondthe pass of Nankau, under an archway, a view of which will be found at the end ofthis volume, on which were engraved, in 1345, two large inscriptions in six differentlanguages : Sanskrit, Tibetan. Mongol, Bashpah, Uighur, Chinese, and a language un-known till recently. Mr Wylies kindness enabled Sir Henry Yule to present a specimenof this. (A much better facsimile of these inscriptions than Wylies having sincebeen published by Prince Roland Bonaparte in his valuable Kecueil des Documents de
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Chap. XV. MONGOL LANGUAGES 29 ! Epoque Mongole, this latter is, by permission, here reproduced.) The Chinese andMongol inscriptions have been translated by M. Ed. Chavannes ; the Tibetan by M.Sylvain Levi (four. Asiat., Sept.-Oct. 1894, pp. 354-373) ; the Ufghiir, by Prof. W.Radloff (Ibid. Nov.-Dec. 1894, pp. 546, 550) ; the Mongol by Prof. G. Huth. (Ibid.Mars-Avril 1895, PP- 35T36o.) The sixth language was supposed by A. Wylie (/.R. A. S. vol. xvii. p. 331, and N.S., vol. v. p. 14) to be Neuchih, Niuche, Niuchenor Juchen. M. Deveria has shown that the inscription is written in Si Hia, or thelanguage of Tangut, and gave a facsimile of a stone stele (pei) in this language kept inthe great Monastery of the Clouds (Ta Yun Ssii) at Liangchau in Kansuh, togetherwith a translation of the Chinese text, engraved on the reverse side of the slab. M.Deveria thinks that this writing was borrowed by the Kings of Tangut from the onederived in 920 by the Khitans from the Chinese. (Stele Si-Hia de Le

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