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Image 41: This scroll contains a Chinese-Khotanese phrasebook containing sentences such as 'Where are you going?', 'Do you know Chinese?', 'Bring me vegetables'. The Chinese words are written into Brahmi script so a Khotanese would have an idea of how to pronounce the sounds of Chinese. A translation in Khotanese then follows. 10th century, Dunhuang, Cave 17.
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