Tangutn.adj.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 116 Between the foresaid mountaines Eastward, inhabiteth the nation of Tangut, who are a most valiant people.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. ix. 337 There were of them divers nations, called by one common name Mogli, which were divided into seven principal tribes, whose names were Tatar, Tangut, Cunat, Talair, Sonich, Monghi, Tebeth.

1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. View Chinese Empire 182 Thibet is known under different names, the Chinese call it Tsang; the Tartars, Barantola, Bouttan, and Tangout.

1827 H. E. Lloyd tr. E. F. Timkovskiĭ Trav. Russian Mission Mongolia to China I. xii. 442 Tangout is a Mongol word, designating the country which at present forms the whole of the western frontier of China, and is inhabited by the eastern Tibetans.

1876 E. D. Morgan tr. N. M. Prejevalsky Mongolia, Tangut Country & N. Tibet II. iv. 119 In the Tangut country..the price of brick tea has considerably risen.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 343/2 The Tang-chang and Peh-lang tribes boasted also of being descended from a monkey; they were the two great divisions of the Tang-hiang or Tangut, offsets of the same Sien-pi stock as that of the conquerors of Tibet.

1908 J. Curtin Mongols iv. 75 The subjection of the Kirghis and this new victory over Tangut secured the position of Jinghis in Northeastern Asia.

1934 K. S. Latourette Chinese I. iv. 159 The Later Chao was succeeded in the Northwest by a state established by a Mongol people, formerly supposed..to be Tanguts.

1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 214/1 Tangut, an Asiatic language, a member of the Eastern group of the Mongol branch of the Altaic sub-family of the Ural-Altaic family of languages.

1979 L. Kwanten Imperial Nomads v. 72 This fails to explain how and when the inhabitants of Hsi Hsia became known as Tangut.

1979 L. Kwanten Imperial Nomads v. 72 Most scholars remain convinced that the Tangut language is a member of the Sino-Tibetan linguistic family, although..recent linguistic research indicates that there is a distinct possibility that Tangut is either a Turkic dialect or a language heavily influenced by a Turkic dialect.

1876 H. H. Howorth Hist. Mongols I. i. 5 This town [sc. Ninghia]..was called in the Tangutan language Eyirkai.

1876 E. D. Morgan tr. N. M. Prejevalsky Mongolia, Tangut Country & N. II. iv. 109 The Tangutans, or the Si-fan as the Chinese call them, are of the same race as the Tibetans.