Khitan Small Script Sound Sign Aŋ

Its proposed sound value is aŋ.

The reading is a scholarly reconstruction from Khitan inscriptions, not a translation.

Traditional histories credit Yelü Diela, younger brother of the Liao founder, with creating the script around 925; they link its design to Uyghur writing, despite few visible similarities. The earliest securely dated surviving text is the Wugulin Taishi epitaph from 1051, a carved tomb memorial. Khitan small script spells words with clusters—groups of sound signs—and standalone word signs. The large script also wrote Khitan; Jurchen writing later adapted Khitan scripts.