Editing Jurchen language (section)

==Writing==
{{main|Jurchen script}}A [[Jurchen script|writing system]] for Jurchen language was developed in 1119 by [[Wanyan Xiyin]]. A number of books were translated into Jurchen, but none have survived, even in fragments. Surviving samples of Jurchen writing are quite scarce.

One of the most important extant texts in Jurchen is the inscription on the back of "the Jin Victory Memorial [[Stele]]" ({{lang-zh|t=大金得勝陀頌碑|p=Dà jīn déshèngtuó sòngbēi|labels=no}}), which was erected in 1185, during the reign of [[Emperor Shizong of Jin|Emperor Shizong]]. It is apparently an abbreviated translation of the Chinese text on the front of the stele.<ref name=tillman>Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Stephen H. West, ''China Under Jurchen Rule: Essays on Chin Intellectual and Cultural History''. Published by SUNY Press, 1995. {{ISBN|0-7914-2274-7}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RWXGlb_9GAEC Partial text] on Google Books. Pp. 228–229</ref>

A number of other Jurchen inscriptions exist as well. For example, in the 1950s a tablet was found in [[Penglai, Shandong]], containing a poem in Jurchen by a poet called (in Chinese transcription) Aotun Liangbi. Although written in Jurchen, the poem was composed using the Chinese "regulated verse" format known as ''[[Shi (poetry)#Jintishi|qiyan lüshi]]''. It is speculated that the choice of this format — rather than something closer to the Jurchen folk poetry — was due to the influence of the Chinese literature on the educated class of the Jurchens.<ref name=tillman/>