Tangut language

Tangut
Tangut
Xi-Xia
𗼇𗟲
	Buddhist scripture written in Tangut
Native to	Western Xia
Ethnicity	Tangut people
Era	attested 1036–1502 AD
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Qiangic Gyalrongic West Gyalrongic Tangut; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Tangut script
Official status
Official language in	Western Xia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	txg
Linguist List	txg
Glottolog	tang1334

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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. The Western Xia was annihilated by the Mongol Empire in 1227.^[1] The Tangut language has its own script, the Tangut script. The latest known text written in the Tangut language, the Tangut dharani pillars, dates to 1502,^[2] suggesting that the language was still in use nearly three hundred years after the collapse of Western Xia.

^ "Khara-Khoto: The Black City" (PDF). IDP News: Newsletter of the International Dunhuang Project. No. 2. January 1995. pp. 2–3. ISSN 1354-5914. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
^ Mote, Frederick W. (2003). Imperial China 900–1800. Harvard University Press. pp. 257–. ISBN 978-0-674-01212-7.

[IDP02-1] "Khara-Khoto: The Black City" (PDF). IDP News: Newsletter of the International Dunhuang Project. No. 2. January 1995. pp. 2–3. ISSN 1354-5914. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-03.

[Mote2003-2] Mote, Frederick W. (2003). Imperial China 900–1800. Harvard University Press. pp. 257–. ISBN 978-0-674-01212-7.

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