Jurchen Script
The Jurchens were the ancestors of the Manchus, and their language, the Jurchen language is ancestral to the Manchu language, and their script was derived from the Khitan script, which was in turn derived from Chinese, but the Jurchen script has no relation to the Manchu alphabet.
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