This list of Tangutologists includes those scholars who have made notable contributions to Tangutology (the study of Tangut people, their culture, religion, history, language and writing system).
| Picture | Name | Dates | Nationality | Significant contributions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
荒川慎太郎 | Japan | "Tangut Rhyme Dictionary" (1997) Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary (2006) | ||
白濱[1] | China | Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Researches in Tangut History (1989) | ||
| Germany | "Buddhistische Bilder aus der Glanzzeit der Tanguten" (1918) | |||
| UK | "The Hsi Hsia Dynasty of Tangut, their Money and Peculiar Script" (1895–1896) "The Tangut script in the Nan K'ou Pass" (1899) | |||
| [2] | UK | Skeleton Dictionary of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1938–1963, manuscript published posthumously in 2016[3]) | ||
| France | "L'Écriture du Royaume de Si-Hia ou Tangout" (1898) "Stèle Si-hia de Leang-tcheou" (1898)[4] | |||
| US | "The 1094 Sino-Tangut Gantong Stupa Stele Inscription of Wuwei" (1988) The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia (1996) | |||
| Hungary | "The Tangut translation of the General's Garden by Zhuge Liang" (2011) Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture (2015) | |||
龔煌城 | Taiwan | "The phonological reconstruction of Tangut through examination of phonological alternations" (1989) | ||
龔勳 | China | "Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology" (2020)[5] | ||
| New Zealand | The Tangut Tripitaka (1971) Analysis of the Tangut Script (1972) | |||
韓小忙[6] | China | Dictionary of Tangut 西夏文词典 [9 vols.] (2021) | ||
黃振華[7] | China | Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Researches in Tangut History (1989) | ||
Алексе́й Ива́нович Ивано́в | Russia | "Monuments de l'écriture tangout" (1920) | ||
| France | "The origin of vowel alternations in the Tangut verb" (2009) "The structure of the Tangut verb" (2011) Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute (2014) | |||
賈常業[8] | China | Newly Compiled Dictionary of Tangut Characters (2013) | ||
景永時[9] | China | Translations of books and articles by Russian Tangutologists Design of Tangut fonts | ||
Ксе́ния Бори́совна Ке́пинг[10] | Russia | Sea of Characters (1969) Sunzi in Tangut translation (1979) Morphology of the Tangut Language (1985) "Tangut Ritual Language" (1996) | ||
Все́волод Серге́евич Ко́локолов[11] | Russia | Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966) Sea of Characters (1969) | ||
| Belgium | The Timely Pearl: A 12th Century Tangut-Chinese Glossary (1982) "The Phonological hypothesis of the Hsi Hsia [Tangut] Language," (1984) "Special Research Problems in Hsi Hsia [Tangut] History and Linguistics" (1985) "The Structure of the Tangut [Hsi Hsia] characters" (1989) | |||
Евге́ний Ива́нович Кыча́нов[12] | Russia | Chinese Classics in Tangut Translation (1966) Essay on the History of the Tangut State (1968) Sea of Characters (1969) Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese Dictionary (2006) | ||
| [13] | France | L'imaginaire de l'autre : Étude et analyse de la réception du volume 41 de l'Avataṃsakasūtra en langue tangoute, conservé à l'Université de Pékin et à l'Institut des hautes études chinoises du Collège de France (2013) | ||
李範文[14] | China | Study of the Homophones (1986) Tangut-Chinese Dictionary (1997, 2008) | ||
林英津[15] | Taiwan | Study of the Tangut translation of "Sunzi's Art of War" (1994) | ||
羅振玉[16] | China | Collection of Western Xia Official Seals (1927) | ||
羅福成[17] | China | Study of the Lotus Sutra in Tangut (1914) | ||
羅福萇[18] | China | Brief Explanation of the Western Xia Script (1914) | ||
羅福頤[19] | China | Collected Study of Official Seals of the Western Xia (1982) | ||
| US | "Sketch of Pre-Tangut" (2012) | |||
| France | "Contribution préliminaire à l'étude de l'écriture et de la langue si-hia" (1904) — study of the Tangut translation of the Saddharma Puṇḍarīka (Lotus Sutra).[20] | |||
Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Не́вский[21] | Russia | "A Brief Manual of the Si-Hia Characters with Tibetan Transcriptions" (1926) Tangut Philology (1960) | ||
聶鴻音[22] | China | "Study of the phonetic symbols used in the Pearl in the Palm" (1987) "Tangutology During the Past Decades" (1993) | ||
西田龍雄[23] | Japan | Study of the Hsi-Hsia Language (1964) Language and Culture of the Tangut Kingdom (1997) | ||
牛达生[24] | China | The Western Xia Square Pagoda at Baisigou (2005) Research into Western Xia Coins (2013) | ||
史金波[25] | China | Study of the Sea of Characters (1983) Brief History of Buddhism in the Western Xia (1988) Study of Western Xia Publishing (2004) Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction 西夏文教程 (2013, English edition 2020) The Economy of Western Xia: A Study of 11th to 13th Century Tangut Records 西夏经济文书研究 (2017, English edition 2021) | ||
Михаи́л Ви́кторович Софро́нов[26] | Russia | Grammar of the Tangut Language (1968) | ||
Кири́лл Ю́рьевич Соло́нин[27] | Russia | "Hongzhou Buddhism in Xixia and the Heritage of Zongmi (780–841)" (2003) "The Chan Teaching of Nanyang Huizhong (?-775) in Tangut Translation" (2012) "The "Perfect Teaching" and Liao Sources of Tangut Chan Buddhism: A Study of Jiexing zhaoxin tu" (2013) | ||
孫伯君[28] | China | "Sanskrit-Chinese phonetic transcriptions and the Northwest Chinese dialect in Tangut translations of sūtras" (2007) | ||
戴忠沛[29] | China (Hong Kong) | "Collation of five newly seen Tangut fragments with Tibetan transcription" (2009) | ||
Анато́лий Па́влович Тере́нтьев-Ката́нский[30] | Russia | Book Publishing in the Tangut State (1981) Sea of Characters (1969) | ||
王静如[31] | China | "Notes on the Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions of the Hsi-hsia (Tangutan) language" (1930) Research on the Western Xia (1933) "Introduction to the Phonetic System of the Tangut Language" (1982) | ||
| US | "On the Tibetan Transcription of Si-Hia Words" (1931) "On the Prefixes and Consonantal Finals of Si-Hia as evidenced by their Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions" (1934) | |||
Вячесла́в Петро́вич За́йцев[32] | Russia | "Re-examination of the Tangut Fragment Or. 12380/3495 from the Collection of the British Library" (2016) | ||
. Imre Galambos . Gerard Clauson's Skeleton Tangut (Hsi Hsia) Dictionary . Evertype. 2016 . 978-1-78201-167-5 . Introduction . xvii .
. George van Driem . Handbuch Der Orientalistik . Brill . 2001 . 9789004120624 . 458 .
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