Talk:Emperor Shengzong of Liao
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I'm not so sure you can call the Kitan (Khitan) a "Tungusic race"... although ethnicity and language are often quite different from one another, the extant records show us that the Kitans spoke a "para-Mongolic" language, and the Kitan words that seem to have Tungusic cognates are only found in Southern Tungusic, especially in Jurchen-Manchu, and can be explained as Kitan loans. Ethnically, the Chinese records say the Kitan are a branch of the Xianbi/Xianbei 鮮卑 people, who seem to have been related to the Mongols... for a more complete discussion of this problem, see:
Christopher P. Atwood (2004) Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, New York: Facts On File
Kara, György (2005) Books of the Mongolian Nomads: More than Eight Centuries of Writing Mongolian, Bloomington: Indiana University Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies.
-Andrew
