Tangut

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Tangut is an extinct Tibeto-Burman language once used in the Western Xia dynasty, best known today for its large and complex logographic writing system.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Tangut language 17
Tangut canonical 11
Tangut court 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
extinct language
language
associatedDynasty Western Xia
endOfUse after Mongol conquest of Western Xia
extinctionStatus extinct as a spoken language
no native speakers
hasApproximateNumberOfCharacters about 6000
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative tendencies
synthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant system
tone
vowel distinctions
hasProperty complex writing system
large character inventory
hasUnicodeBlock Tangut
Tangut Components
Tangut Supplement
linked to: Tangut script
hasWritingCorpus Buddhist texts
dictionaries
glossaries
legal documents
historicalPeriod 11th century to 13th century
ISO639-3 txg
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
notableDictionary Homophones
Sea of Characters
reconstructionBy Arakawa Shintaro
Gong Hwang-cherng
Li Fanwen
Nishida Tatsuo
Sofya Rimsky-Korsakova
region Gansu
linked to: Gansu Province

Ningxia
Ordos region
linked to: Ordos Plateau

northwestern China
scriptInfluence influenced by Chinese characters
scriptStatus deciphered in the 20th century
scriptType logographic writing system
spokenIn Western Xia dynasty
linked to: Western Xia
subclassOf Sino-Tibetan language
usedAs administrative language of Western Xia
literary language of Western Xia
usedBy Tangut people
writingDirection columns ordered left-to-right
top-to-bottom
vertical columns
writingSystem Tangut script
writingSystemUsedFor translating Buddhist scriptures

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (30)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Qiangic languages hasSubgroup Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Proto-Sino-Tibetan ancestorOf Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Western Xia nativeNameLanguage Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Western Xia ethnicGroupInPower Tangut people
linked to: Tangut
Western Xia language Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Western Xia mausoleums culture Tangut
Tangut hasUnicodeBlock Tangut
Tangut Components script Tangut
Tangut script writingSystemOf Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Jiarong language closelyRelatedTo Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Qiangic group hasPart Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
𗴂𗹭𗂧 language Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
𗴂𗹭𗂧 associatedLanguage Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
𗴂𗹭𗂧 usedBy Tangut court
linked to: Tangut
Western Xia hasOfficialLanguage Tangut language
subject linked to: Xixia
linked to: Tangut
Weiming clan languageAssociated Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Dingnan Jiedushi languageUsed Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Tangut law code language Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Tangut law code culture Tangut
Xingqing languageContext Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Xingqing Prefecture associatedWith Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Xi Xia commonLanguage Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Li Yuanhao promoted Tangut language
linked to: Tangut
Li Xian nativeNameLanguage Tangut