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 ⓘ