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    lit. 'Western Xia language') is an extinct language in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Tangut was one of the official languages of the Western Xia...
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    destroyed. Today the Tangut language and its unique script are extinct; only fragments of Tangut literature remain. The Tangut language, otherwise known as...
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    contains Tangut text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tangut characters. The Tangut script...
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    Western Xia (redirect from Tangut Empire)
    research in China and the West. Today the Tangut language and its unique script are extinct, only fragments of Tangut literature remain. The Western Xia occupied...
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  • Tangutology (redirect from Tangut studies)
    Tangutology or Tangut studies is the study of the culture, history, art and language of the ancient Tangut people, especially as seen through the study...
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    language – Jurchen script The Khitans (Mongolic people) – Khitan language – Khitan large and small scripts The Tanguts (Sino-Tibetan people) – Tangut...
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  • extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia is considered to be Qiangic by some linguists, including Matisoff (2004). The undeciphered Nam language of China...
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  • Emperor Chongzong of Western Xia (category 12th-century Tangut rulers)
    article contains Tangut text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tangut characters. Emperor...
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    denote numbers in the Tangut language during the Western Xia regime (1038–1227) and during the subsequent Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Tangut numerals are written...
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    script. The Tangut language of the 12th century Western Xia of northern China is preserved in numerous texts written in the Chinese-inspired Tangut script...
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  • Look up Tangut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tangut may refer to: Tangut people, an ancient ethnic group in Northwest China Tangut language, the extinct...
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    city", Tangut: 𗋽𗰞 /*zjɨ̱r²-nja̱¹/ "black water" (transcribed into Chinese as 亦集乃 Yijinai), Modern Mongolian Khar khot (Middle Mongol language:ᠬᠠᠷᠠ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ...
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  • Slovene language Li Fanwen (PR China, 1932–), Tangut language Li, Fang-Kuei (PR China/United States, 1902–1987), Mattole language, Tai languages, Old Chinese...
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    Ksenia Kepping (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
    of two contrasting forms of Tangut language, the common language used in most surviving Tangut texts, and a ritual language preserved only in a few ritual...
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  • manuscript and xylograph texts that are written in the extinct Tangut language and Tangut script. These texts were mostly produced within the Western Xia...
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    periods. There are also extensive records in Tangut, the language of the Western Xia (1038–1227). Tangut is recorded in a Chinese-inspired logographic...
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  • consists of the Lolo-Burmese and Qiangic branches, including the extinct Tangut language. Guillaume Jacques & Alexis Michaud (2011) argue for a Burmo-Qiangic...
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    Rime dictionary (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    the logographic Tangut script were discovered in the early 20th century. One of the sources used to reconstruct the Tangut language is the Sea of Characters...
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  • extinct Tangut language to West Gyalrongic. Beaudouin (2023) through a morphosyntactic analysis based on phonetic correspondences, shows that Tangut should...
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  • block containing characters from the Tangut script, which was used for writing the Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people in the Western Xia Empire,...
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    develop a writing system, after Classical Chinese, Pyu, Old Tibetan and Tangut. The majority of Burmese speakers, who live throughout the Irrawaddy River...
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  • Yeli Renrong (category 11th-century Tangut people)
    Tangut text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tangut characters. Yeli Renrong (Tangut:...
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    Lotus Sutra (category Articles containing Tangut-language text)
    Chinese Lotus Sūtra has been translated into other Asian languages including Uighur, Tangut, and more recently colloquial Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese...
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  • block containing characters from the Tangut script, which was used for writing the Tangut language spoken by the Tangut people in the Western Xia Empire,...
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  • study of Tangut people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing system). List of Khitanologists List of sinologists List of Tangut books "白滨...
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    Chang'an in 653 to proselytize, as described in a dual Chinese and Syriac language inscription from Chang'an (modern Xi'an) dated to the year 781. Others...
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  • Gerard Clauson (category Linguists of Turkic languages)
    script. Clauson also worked on the Tangut language, and in 1938–1939 wrote a Skeleton dictionary of the Hsi-hsia language. The manuscript copy is held at...
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    Tael (category Articles containing Tangut-language text)
    Indonesian tahil Manchu name Manchu script ᠶᠠᠨ Möllendorff yan Khmer name Khmer តាល Tangut name Tangut 𗍬 Miyake transcription 2lu3 Buryat name Buryat лан...
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    Helan Mountains (category Articles containing Tangut-language text)
    View from cable car, Helan Mountains, Ningxia. Remains of Western Xia (Tangut Empire) mausoleum no. 3, foot of Helan Mountains, Ningxia. Fierce, hag-like...
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  • articles on the extinct Tangut language, as well as a book-length study of the Chinese glosses in the 12th-century Chinese-Tangut glossary, Pearl in the...
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