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Name: Tangut Type: Language Alternate Names: Hsi-hsia; Xixia; Tanguhti Code: txg Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Sino-Tibetan Parent Subgroup: Tangut-Qiang; North-eastern Tibeto-Burman; North-Eastern Tibeto-Burman; other Northeastern Tibeto-Burman (tanq) Brief Description: Tangut was the official language of the Tangut empire (known in Tibetan as Mi-Nyag and in Chinese as Xixia 西夏). It broke free of the Chinese Song dynasty at the beginning of the 11th century, and was destroyed by the Mongols in 1227. The last text dates from 1502, so the language continued to be used after the destruction of the Tangut state. It had its own script, though the Tibetan script was occasionally used. c. 11th - 16th centuries AD.

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Linguist List Status: Extinct