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Tangut (Tangut: 𗼇𗟲; Chinese: 西夏語; pinyin: Xī Xiàyǔ; 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 dynasty , founded by the Tangut people in northwestern China.
"Tangut Rhyme Dictionary" (1997) Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary (2006) Bái Bīn 白濱 [1] 1936–2022: China Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Researches in Tangut History (1989) Mathieu Beaudouin b. 1989: France "Tangut and Horpa languages: Some morphosyntactic shared features" (2023) [2] Grammaire du tangoute. Phonologie et ...
Tangut women. The Tangut language, otherwise known as Fan, belongs to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Like many other Sino-Tibetan languages, it is a tonal language with predominantly mono-syllabic roots, but it shares certain grammatical traits central to the Tibeto-Burman branch.
Established Tangutologists have also continued to make important contributions. Li Fanwen published a revised and extended edition of his Tangut-Chinese dictionary (2008), and Kychanov and Arakawa produced a Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese dictionary (2006). In 2021 Han Xiaomang published a dictionary of Tangut characters and words in nine volumes.
This list of Tangut books comprises a list of manuscript and xylograph texts that are written in the extinct Tangut language and Tangut script.These texts were mostly produced within the Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227) during the 12th and 13th centuries, and include Buddhist sutras and explanatory texts, dictionaries and other philological texts, as well as translations of Chinese books and ...
Stephen Wootton Bushell's decipherment of 37 Tangut characters The Tangut character for "man", a relatively simple character [Tangut] is remarkable for being written in one of the most inconvenient of all scripts, a collection of nearly 5,800 characters of the same kind as Chinese characters but rather more complicated; very few are made up of as few as four strokes and most are made up of a ...
Tangut script, the writing system used to write the Tangut language; Tangut (Unicode block) Western Xia (1038–1227), also known as the Tangut Empire, a state founded by the Tangut people; In 18th and 19th century works, the term 'Tangut' is often used as a synonym for Tibet or Tibetan, and may refer to: Tibet; Tibetan people; Tibetan language ...
One of the sources used to reconstruct the Tangut language is the Sea of Characters (Chinese: 文海; pinyin: Wénhǎi), a rhyme dictionary written entirely in Tangut, but with the same structure as the Chinese dictionaries. The dictionary consists of one volume each for the Tangut level and rising tones, with a third volume of "mixed category ...