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"text": "In 1227, from his deathbed, as his armies lay siege to the Tangut capital, he ordered every Tangut to be slaughtered. His troops carried out his orders, even though he was dead by the time of the final slaughter. So complete was the extermination that until recently the Tangut were a historical blur virtually erased from history by the Mongols.",
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"ref": "2012 October 12, Anatoly M. Khazanov, Andre Wink, Nomads in the Sedentary World (Curzon-Iias Asian Studies), Routledge, page 194",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "tanguutti-"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "tanguuttilainen"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "tangutisch"
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"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "тангад"
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"word": "тангу́тский"
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"1": "-",
"2": "more"
},
"expansion": "Tangut (not generally comparable, comparative more Tangut, superlative most Tangut)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"alt": "SIL",
"urls": [
"https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/txg"
],
"word": "txg"
},
{
"word": "txg "
},
{
"word": "Wiktionary’s coverage of Tangut terms"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to the Tangut people, language or script."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtɑŋ.ɡʊt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "tanguutti-"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "tanguuttilainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "tangutisch"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "tangad",
"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "тангад"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "tangucki"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tangútskij",
"sense": "relational adjective",
"word": "тангу́тский"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Bilgä Qaǧan",
"Ming dynasty",
"Richard Hakluyt",
"Secret History of the Mongols",
"Tangut language",
"Tangut people",
"Tangut script",
"William of Rubruck"
],
"word": "Tangut"
}
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