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Tangutan

Tangutan proper noun: the language or script of the Tangut people.

Proper noun

Tangutan

  1. (rare) The language or script of the Tangut people.
    • The adjective, by the way, seems to have come after the noun in Tangutan, like it usually does in Tibetan.1897, S. W. Bushell, “The Hsi Hsia Dynasty of Tangut, their Money and Peculiar Script”, in Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 30, number 1, page 155

Adjective

Tangutan (not generally comparable, comparative more Tangutan, superlative most Tangutan)

  1. (not comparable, rare, usually) Of or pertaining to the Tangut people, language or script.
    Synonyms:
    Tangut

Synonyms of Tangutan

Forms of Tangutan

comparativemore Tangutan
superlativemost Tangutan

Questions about Tangutan

What does Tangutan mean?
Tangutan means the language or script of the Tangut people.
What part of speech is Tangutan?
Tangutan can be a proper noun or an adjective.

Words near Tangutan in the dictionary

  1. Tangumas
  2. tangums
  3. tangun
  4. tanguns
  5. Tangut
  6. Tangutan
  7. Tangutologist
  8. Tangutologists
  9. Tangutology
  10. Tanguts
  11. Tanguturi

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