Tangut (Mathieu Beaudouin)

This video introduces the Tangut language of the ancient Tangut kingdom (xixa). Tangut belongs to the Horpa branch of the Gyalrong family. The speaker is Mathieu Beaudoin, currently a postdoc at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

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Edits from the author of the video:
1- the 16th century's Sanskrit dharanis are accompanied by small passages written in Tangut, which shows the language was still in use at the beginning of the 16th century. As these texts are not exclusively Sanskrit material - as the way they are usually mentioned in the literature made me think - there is of course no need to doubt about the spoken nature of Tangut at that time. These attestations are actually invaluable for the study of the diachrony of Tangut.
2- the tensing reconstruction Ṿ is not by Gong Hwang-cherng (1999): the hypothesis was first mentioned by Nishida (1964).
3- the comitative is now glossed as an "associative", which better renders its intervention in the argumental structure of the verb.

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00:00 Background
03:15 Introduction – Historical overview
11:10 Introduction – Cultural overview
17:44 Introduction – Classification
21:55 Phonology –Tangut reconstruction
26:36 Phonology – Syllable structure
29:01 Phonology – Phonemes
34:25 Typological profile – Basic syntax
37:22 Typological profile – Typology
37:52 Case marking – Core cases
39:44 Case marking – Semantic cases
41:53 Case marking – Locative cases
45:01 Verbal morphology – The Tangut verb template
45:41 Verbal morphology – Orientational TAM system
52:34 Verbal morphology – Stem alternations
57:20 Verbal morphology – Agreement
1:02:06 Verbal morphology – Suffixal slots