Xixia language | extinct language | Britannica (original) (raw)

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  In Sino-Tibetan languages: Tibeto-Burman languages
  Xixia (Tangut), and other languages. The Tibetan writing system (which dates from the 7th century) and the Burmese (dating from the 11th century) are derived from the Indo-Aryan (Indic) tradition. The Xixia system (developed in the 11th–13th century in northwestern China) was based on the…
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  In Tibeto-Burman languages: The Qiangic group
  …indirect descendant of the extinct Xixia (also known as Tangut) language, once spoken in a powerful empire located in the far northwestern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Although the empire was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century, a large literature in Xixia survives. It is…
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