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 ...
.
References
Biography in Chinese
Creators of writing systems
Western Xia people
11th-century Tangut people
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