Tangut language
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Tangut is an extinct Sino‑Tibetan language, now argued to belong within the Horpa subgroup of West Gyalrongic.
Buddhist scripture written in Tangut
Pages from the Fanhan heshi zhangzhongzhu
Qiangic languages
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Qiangic is a group of related languages within the Sino-Tibetan language family. They are spoken mainly in Southwest China, including Sichuan and northern Yunnan. Most Qiangic languages are distribute
Tangut language
…was still in use nearly three hundred years after the collapse of the Western Xia. Since the 2010s, Tangutologists have commonly classified Tangut as a Qiangic or Gyalrongic language. On the basis of both morphological and lexical evidence, Lai et al. (2020) classify Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language…
Yalong 雅砻江 and Jinsha 金沙江 watersheds