Tangut people - Wikipedia
网页The Tangut people (Tangut: 𗼎𗾧, mjɨ nja̱ or 𗼇𘓐, mji dzjwo; Chinese: 党項; pinyin: Dǎngxiàng; Tibetan: མི་ཉག་, Wylie: mi nyak; Mongolian: Тангуд) were a Sino-Tibetan people who founded and inhabited the Western Xia dynasty. The group initially lived under Tuyuhun authority, [1] but later submitted to the Tang ...
Tangut | Xixia Empire, Western Xia Dynasty, Silk Road
网页Tangut, people historically living in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of Gansu and Shaanxi and the southwestern portion of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. They engaged in irrigated agriculture and pastoralism and—taking advantage of their location at the eastern end.
Tangut language - Wikipedia
网页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.
Tangut script - Wikipedia
网页The Tangut script (Tangut: 𗼇𘝞; Chinese: 西夏文; pinyin: Xī Xià Wén; lit. 'Western Xia script') is a logographic writing system, formerly used for writing the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty.
Tangut script and language - Omniglot
网页Information about the Tangut script, which was modelled on the Chinese script and was used until the 16th century to write Xīxià (Hsihsia), an extinct Sino-Tibetan language.
Who Were the Tangut in Asian History? - ThoughtCo
网页2018年8月31日 · The Tangut people—also know as Xia—were an important ethnic group in northwestern China during the seventh through eleventh centuries CE. Likely related to the Tibetans, the Tanguts spoke a language from the Qiangic group of …
China - Tangut, Khitan, Juchen | Britannica
网页3 天之前 · China - Tangut, Khitan, Juchen: On the frontier, the far-reaching influence of Tang culture affected various nomadic, seminomadic, and pastoral peoples. In the northwest the Tangut (Pinyin: Dangxiang), a Tibetan-speaking branch of the Qiang, inhabited the region between the far end of the Great Wall in present-day Gansu and …
The Tanguts - UW Departments Web Server
网页The Tanguts (Xia) were a people of Tibetan origin, whose home originally was in the highlands of western Sichuan. By the middle of the ninth century, like the Uighurs, they were important enough to earn the gratitude of the Tang Dynasty for …
Tracing the Tangut - The World of Chinese
网页2020年3月8日 · CHINESE HISTORY DISAPPEARANCE OF AN EMPIRE HISTORY OF CHINA’S ETHNICITIES MONGOLIAN EMPIRE TANGUT. As Genghis Khan lay dying, he ordered his generals to take revenge on the people that killed him—and exterminate an empire without a trace.
Xi Xia | Mongol Invasion, Silk Road & Buddhism | Britannica
网页Xi Xia, kingdom of the Tibetan-speaking Tangut tribes that was established in 1038 and flourished until 1227. It was located in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of Gansu and Shaanxi. Occupying the area along the trade route between Central Asia and Europe, the Tangut were content.