What is Tangut language?
{{Infobox language |name = Tangut |altname = Xi-Xia |nativename = {{Tangut|𗼇𗟲|2mi4 1ngwu'1}} |imagecaption = [[Buddhist texts|Buddhist scripture]] written in Tangut |image = Chrysographic Tangut Golden Light Sutra.jpg |imagesize = |states = [[Western Xia]] |ethnicity=[[Tangut people]] |era=attested 1036–1502 AD |familycolor=Sino-Tibetan |fam2=[[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]] |fam3=[[Qiangic languages|Qiangic]] |fam4=[[Gyalrongic languages|Gyalrongic]] |fam5=[[West Gyalrongic languages|West Gyalrongic]] |nation=[[Western Xia]] |script=[[Tangut script]] |iso3=txg |glotto=tang1334 |glottorefname=Tangut |linglist=txg }} '''Tangut''' (Tangut: {{Tangut|𗼇𗟲}}; {{zh|t=西夏語|p=Xī Xiàyǔ |l=Western Xia language}}) is a [[Sino-Tibetan]] language. It is an [[extinct language]]. It was spoken by the [[Tangut people]]. It was an official language of the [[Western Xia dynasty]]. The language is written with the [[Tangut script]]. In 1908, [[Pyotr Kozlov]] and his expedition team reached [[Khara-Khoto]]. They found Tangut texts in a pagoda. They took the manuscript back to [[Russia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shi |first1=Jinbo |last2=Li |first2=Hansong |title=Tangut language and manuscripts: an introduction |date=2020 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden ; Boston |isbn=9789004414549 |page=33}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Sino-Tibetan languages]] [[Category:Extinct languages]] {{asia-stub}}