Dear Members - as far as I know there are no reconstructions of Mohe or
any other northern language, except a few guesses at 'Xiongnu' words.
There are a few identified Khitan words in Jurchen. The Khitan script is
still only partially deciphered, mainly on the basis of Khitan
transcriptions of Chinese words and vice versa, but from what can be
gathered, some Khitan words look like their Mongolic equivalents, some
look a bit like their Tungusic equivalents, but most identified words do
not look like either. I recently wrote on Jurchen and Khitan in the
Festschrift for Giovanni Stary, but I am not sure if it has been
formally published yet. I have not yet seen it.  Daniel Kane

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A recent discussion with Wei Yu Tan about his research on Kitan  
reconstruction, and what appear to be a surprising (to me) degree of  
Jurchen elements, has raised the question for me of how much work has  
been done on northern Manchurian languages before the 12th century  
Jurchens. Are there reconstructions or theoretical descriptions of  
Mohe?  Just wondering how old these influence might be in Kitan.