Tangut

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Data

ISO 15924 Tang 520
Type Logographic, With A Syllabographic Element
Family Sinitic
Direction vertical RtL, LtR
Diacritics No
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 6,000
Inventor The Teacher Iri
Earliest Date 1036 CE
Latest Date 1600 CE
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 193-220 Blackwell Publishing
Kychanov, Evgenij 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Siniform Scripts of Inner Asia (Tangut), 228-230 Oxford University Press