Tangut

E544861
Tibeto-Burman language extinct language language

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.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Tangut language 4
Tangut people 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ
language ⓘ
associatedDynasty Western Xia NERFINISHED ⓘ
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 NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tangut Components NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tangut Supplement NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasWritingCorpus Buddhist texts ⓘ
dictionaries ⓘ
glossaries ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ
historicalPeriod 11th century to 13th century ⓘ
ISO639-3 txg ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableDictionary Homophones ⓘ
Sea of Characters NERFINISHED ⓘ
reconstructionBy Arakawa Shintaro NERFINISHED ⓘ
Gong Hwang-cherng NERFINISHED ⓘ
Li Fanwen NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nishida Tatsuo NERFINISHED ⓘ
Sofya Rimsky-Korsakova NERFINISHED ⓘ
region Gansu NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ningxia NERFINISHED ⓘ
Ordos region NERFINISHED ⓘ
northwestern China ⓘ
scriptInfluence influenced by Chinese characters ⓘ
scriptStatus deciphered in the 20th century ⓘ
scriptType logographic writing system ⓘ
spokenIn Western Xia dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ
subclassOf Sino-Tibetan language ⓘ
usedAs administrative language of Western Xia ⓘ
literary language of Western Xia ⓘ
usedBy Tangut people NERFINISHED ⓘ
writingDirection columns ordered left-to-right ⓘ
top-to-bottom ⓘ
vertical columns ⓘ
writingSystem Tangut script NERFINISHED ⓘ
writingSystemUsedFor translating Buddhist scriptures ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

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

Supplementary Ideographic Plane → contains → Tangut ⓘ
Qiangic languages → hasSubgroup → Tangut ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tangut language
Proto-Sino-Tibetan → ancestorOf → Tangut ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tangut language
Western Xia → nativeNameLanguage → Tangut ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tangut language
Western Xia → ethnicGroupInPower → Tangut ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tangut people
Western Xia → language → Tangut ⓘ
this entity surface form: Tangut language