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Tangut (Tangut: ; Chinese: 西夏语; pinyin: Xī Xià Yǔ; lit. 'Western Xia language') is an extinct language in the Sino-Tibetan language family. From the 2010s, more and more Tangutologists classify it under the Qiangic language branch, of which, "a close relative of the modern Rgyalrongic languages.Tangut was one of the official languages of the Western Xia, which was founded by the Tangut people. The Western Xia were annihilated when Genghis Khan invaded in 1226. The Tangut language has its own script, the Tangut script. The latest known text written in the Tangut language, the Tangut dharani pillars, dates to 1502, suggesting that the language was still in use nearly three hundred years after the collapse of Western Xia.

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