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Tangut language

Index Tangut language

Tangut (also Xīxià or Hsi-Hsia or Mi-nia) is an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language once spoken in the Western Xia, also known as the Tangut Empire. [1]

40 relations: Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov, Berthold Laufer, British Library, Buddhist texts, Chinese classics, Fanqie, Genghis Khan, Gong Hwang-cherng, Guillaume Jacques, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Khara-Khoto, Ksenia Kepping, Lenin Prize, Li Fanwen, List of Tangutologists, Lotus Sutra, Marc Miyake, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky, NKVD, Northern Qiang language, Pearl in the Palm, Pyotr Kozlov, Qiangic languages, RGyalrong languages, Saint Petersburg, Shi Jinbo, Shintarō Arakawa, Siege of Leningrad, Song dynasty, Southern Qiang language, Tangut dharani pillars, Tangut people, Tangut script, Tangutology, Tatsuo Nishida, Tibeto-Burman languages, Tosu language, Varieties of Chinese, Western Xia, Yevgeny Kychanov.

Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov

Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov (Алексей Иванович Иванов,, 1878–1937) was a Russian Sinologist and Tangutologist.

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Berthold Laufer

Berthold Laufer (October 11, 1874 – September 13, 1934) was an anthropologist and historical geographer with an expertise in East Asian languages.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Buddhist texts

Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo-Aryan languages which were then translated into other local languages as Buddhism spread.

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Chinese classics

Chinese classic texts or canonical texts refers to the Chinese texts which originated before the imperial unification by the Qin dynasty in 221 BC, particularly the "Four Books and Five Classics" of the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves a customary abridgment of the "Thirteen Classics".

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Fanqie

In traditional Chinese lexicography, fǎnqiè or fan-chieh is a method to indicate the pronunciation of a monosyllabic character by using two other characters, one with the same initial consonant as the desired syllable and one with the same rest of the syllable (the final).

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Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan or Temüjin Borjigin (Чингис хаан, Çingis hán) (also transliterated as Chinggis Khaan; born Temüjin, c. 1162 August 18, 1227) was the founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death.

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Gong Hwang-cherng

Gong Hwang-cherng (1934–2010) was a Taiwan Chinese linguist who specialized in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics and the phonetic reconstruction of Tangut and Old Chinese.

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Guillaume Jacques

Guillaume Jacques (b. 1979) is a French linguist of Breton descent who specializes in the study of Sino-Tibetan languages: Old Chinese, Tangut, Tibetan, Rgyalrongic and Kiranti languages.

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Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (IOM) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Институт восточных рукописей Российской академии наук), formerly the St.

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Khara-Khoto

Khara-Khoto (Khar Khot "black city") was a Tangut city in the Ejin Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia near Juyan Lake Basin.

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Ksenia Kepping

Ksenia Borisovna Kepping (Ксе́ния Бори́совна Ке́пинг,, 7 February 1937 – 13 December 2002) was a Russian Tangutologist, known principally for her study of Tangut (or Mi-nia) grammar.

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Lenin Prize

The Lenin Prize (Ленинская премия, Leninskaya premiya) is one of the awards re-introduced in April 2018 in the Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, presented to individuals for accomplishments relating to science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology.

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Li Fanwen

Li Fanwen (born November 1932) is a Chinese linguist and Tangutologist.

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List of Tangutologists

This list of Tangutologists includes those scholars who have made notable contributions to Tangutology (the study of Tangut people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing system).

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Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: सद्धर्मपुण्डरीक सूत्र, literally "Sūtra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma") is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which the Tiantai, Tendai, Cheontae, and Nichiren schools of Buddhism were established.

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Marc Miyake

Marc Hideo Miyake (Japanese name:; born July 28, 1971) is an American linguist, who specializes in historical linguistics, particularly the study of Old Japanese and Tangut.

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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Не́вский; the surname is also transcribed Nevskij;, Yaroslavl - 24 November 1937, Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet linguist, an expert on a number of East Asian languages.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), abbreviated NKVD (НКВД), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.

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Northern Qiang language

Northern Qiang is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Qiangic branch spoken by approximately 60,000 people in north-central Sichuan Province, China.

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Pearl in the Palm

The Pearl in the Palm or the Timely Pearl (Tangut) is a bilingual glossary between the Chinese and Tangut languages.

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Pyotr Kozlov

Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (Пётр Кузьми́ч Козло́в; October 3, 1863 in Dukhovshchina – September 26, 1935 in Peterhof) was a Russian and Soviet traveler and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet.

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Qiangic languages

Qiangic (Ch'iang, Kyang, Tsiang), formerly known as Dzorgaic, is a group of related languages within the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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RGyalrong languages

rGyalrong (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རོང), also rendered Jiarong or sometimes Gyarung, is a subbranch of the Rgyalrongic languages spoken in western Sichuan, China.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Shi Jinbo

Shi Jinbo (born 3 March 1940) is a Chinese linguist and Tangutologist.

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Shintarō Arakawa

is a Japanese linguist who specializes in the study of the extinct Tangut language.

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Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad (also known as the Leningrad Blockade (Блокада Ленинграда, transliteration: Blokada Leningrada) and the 900-Day Siege) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany and the Finnish Army in the north, against Leningrad, historically and currently known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.

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Southern Qiang language

Southern Qiang is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Qiangic branch spoken by approximately 81,300 people along the Minjiang (岷江) river in Sichuan Province, China.

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Tangut dharani pillars

The Tangut dharani pillars are two stone dharani pillars, with the text of a dhāraṇī-sutra inscribed on them in the Tangut script, which were found in Baoding, Hebei, China in 1962.

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Tangut people

The Tangut first appeared as a tribal union living under Tuyuhun authority and moved to Northwest China sometime before the 10th century to found the Western Xia or Tangut Empire (1038–1227).

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Tangut script

The Tangut script (Chinese: 西夏文 xī xià wén) was a logographic writing system, used for writing the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia Dynasty.

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Tangutology

Tangutology or Tangut studies is the study of the culture, history, art and language of the ancient Tangut people, especially as seen through the study of contemporary documents written by the Tangut people themselves.

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Tatsuo Nishida

was a professor at Kyoto University.

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Tibeto-Burman languages

The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the highlands of Southeast Asia as well as certain parts of East Asia and South Asia.

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Tosu language

Tosu (autonym: do33 ɕu33 na31) is a moribund Qiangic language of China which shows strong affiliations to both the Loloish languages and to Tangut, the language of the Western Xia.

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Varieties of Chinese

Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local language varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible.

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Western Xia

The Western Xia, also known as the Xi Xia Empire, to the Mongols as the Tangut Empire and to the Tangut people themselves and to the Tibetans as Mi-nyak,Stein (1972), pp.

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Yevgeny Kychanov

Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov (Евгений Иванович Кычанов; also transcribed as Yevgeny Ivanovich Kychanov, 22 June 1932 – 24 May 2013) was a Soviet and Russian orientalist, an expert on the Tangut people and their mediaeval Xi Xia Empire.

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Hsi-Hsia language, Hsihsia Tangut language, Hsihsia Tangutski language, Hsihsia language, ISO 639:txg, Mi-nia, Sihia language, Tangut Language, Xi-Xia language, Xixia language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangut_language

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