 Few documents written in either the Khitan large or small script survive to this day . Most surviving specimens of both Khitan scripts are epitaph inscriptions on stone tablets , as well as a number of inscriptions on coins , mirrors and seals . Only a single manuscript text in the Khitan large script is known ( Nova N 176 ) , and no manuscripts in the Khitan small script are known . The Liao emperors could read Chinese , and while there were some Chinese works translated into Khitan during the Liao dynasty , the Confucian classics , which served as the core guide to the administration of government in China , are not known to have been translated into Khitan . 
