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西夏国書字典音同

http://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/html/ho05/ho05_01900/index.html

http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/ho05/ho05_01900/ho05_01900.pdf

http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/ho05/ho05_01900/ho05_01900.html

Rajmaan (talk) 20:28, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Writing Direction?

Why would Tangut be written 'left-to-right' as in Modern Chinese? Shouldn't it be right to left as Chinese was back in that time period? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reboot01 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't consider that either Chinese or Tangut were written right-to-left, but rather vertically in columns running right-to-left. As far as I know true rtl format (horizontal lines of rtl text running top-to-bottom down the writing surface) was never used for Chinese or Tangut. In cases such as image captions where text seems to be written rtl, in reality it is formatted in vertical columns of one character length written right-to-left. But from Wikipedia's perspective all that is irrelevant, as Wikipedia must reflect actual modern usage, and modern usage is to write Tangut left-to-right. BabelStone (talk) 16:36, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I meant, sorry, and thanks, I didn't realize that's what the section meant, I thought it meant how it was historically written, since Tangut isn't really written anymore except in (mostly) academic papers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reboot01 (talk • contribs) 05:59, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Orthography of the Tangut Script and Language

Should the Tangut language text on this page, and other pages with Tangut, be 'standardized' with the simplified Tangut orthography in Tangut numerals, or should it be left as it is? I think it would help with new readers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reboot01 (talk • contribs) 05:58, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It would be great if we could agree on a consistent system of Tangut transcription for use on Wikipedia. @Greg Pandatshang: already suggested using Marc Miyake's simplified phonetic notation almost five years ago at Talk:Western Xia#Tangut language transcription. I would prefer to use Miyake's phonetic notation rather than the phonetic reconstructions given in Li Fanwen's and Kychanov's dictionaries, but I think that there is an argument for using his complex notation rather than his simplified notation when giving the reading of individual Tangut characters, otherwise some characters may appear to be homophones when actually there is a difference in reading and/or tone. BabelStone (talk) 11:02, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we could have it separated by a '/', have Miyake's transcription, and then the more complex Fanwen/Kychanov one. Reboot01 (talk) 3:29, 5 December 2019 (UTC)