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Yeli Renrong ( Tangut: ; , died 1042) was a scholar and official who served in the court of the Western Xia dynasty of China. He was a trusted official of the Western Xia founder Emperor Jingzong. According to the official '' History of Song'', the Emperor Ningzong commanded him to design the complex
Tangut script The Tangut script ( Tangut: ; ) was a logographic writing system, used for writing the extinct Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty. According to the latest count, 5863 Tangut characters are known, excluding variants. The Tangut characte ...
in 1036 or 1038, based on Chinese writing, for use in writing the
Tangut language Tangut (Tangut: ; ) is an extinct language in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Tangut was one of the official languages of the Western Xia dynasty, founded by the Tangut people in northwestern China. The Western Xia was annihilated by the M ...
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Creators of writing systems Western Xia people 11th-century Tangut people {{writingsystem-stub