Tuyuhun (Chinese: 吐谷渾), also known as ‘Azha from Tibetan script,[1] is an extinct language once spoken by the Tuyuhun of northern China about 500 AD. The existence of the Tuyuhun, and consequently their language, is first attested in the Book of Song, compiled around 488 AD.[2]
^Shimunek, Andrew E (2017). Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: A Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology.
^Vovin, Alexander. 2015.Some notes on the Tuyuhun (吐谷渾) language: in the footsteps of Paul Pelliot
Tuyuhun (Chinese: 吐谷渾), also known as ‘Azha from Tibetan script, is an extinct language once spoken by the Tuyuhun of northern China about 500 AD. The...
Tuyuhun (Chinese: 吐谷渾; LHC: *tʰɑʔ-jok-guənʔ; Wade-Giles: T'u-yühun), also known as Henan (Chinese: 河南) and Azha (Tibetan: ཨ་ཞ་, Wylie: ‘A-zha; Chinese:...
the Caucasus 19. 87–95. Vovin, Alexander. 2015b. Some notes on the Tuyuhun () language: In the footsteps of Paul Pelliot. Journal of Sino-Western Communications...
loanwords from Koreanic languages into Khitan. He also identified the extinct Tuyuhunlanguage as another Para-Mongolic language. The temporal delimitation...
Khitan, Tuyuhun, and possibly also Tuoba languages. Alexander Vovin (2007) identifies the extinct Tabγač or Tuoba language as a Mongolic language. However...
a "Serbi" (i.e., para-Mongolic) language. Shimunek's Serbi branch also consists of the Tuyuhun and Khitan languages. Some functional suffixes are: *-A(y)...
star in the constellation Eridanus Tuyuhun or Azha, a former kingdom in China Azha language, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Yi people of China Eid-ul-Azha...
Khitan and Murong: The language (of the Khitan) and that of the Tuyuhun could generally communicate with each other. The Khitan language is widely recognized...
and inhabited the Western Xia dynasty. The group initially lived under Tuyuhun authority, but later submitted to the Tang dynasty. After the collapse...
have descended from the Xianbei who were led by Tuyuhun Khan to migrate westward and establish the Tuyuhun Kingdom (284–670) in the third century and Western...
of their Khan, Tuyuhun, from their original settlements on the Liaodong Peninsula to the western region of modern Qinghai. The Tuyuhun Empire (284–670)...
extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
was first seen in a speech between 283 and 289, when the Xianbei chief Tuyuhun tried to escape from his younger stepbrother Murong Hui, and began his...
as a "Serbi" (i.e., para-Mongolic) language. Shimunek's "Serbi" linguistic branch also includes Taghbach, Tuyuhun, and Khitan. Xianbei List of past Chinese...
modern Liaoning became the Wuhuan. According to the Book of Later Han, “the language and culture of the Xianbei are the same as the Wuhuan”. Until 121 BC, the...
as a "Serbi" (i.e., para-Mongolic) language. Shimunek's "Serbi" linguistic branch also includes Taghbach, Tuyuhun, and Khitan. Xianbei List of past Chinese...
medieval name of Haza, Province of Burgos, Spain Aźa, a Tibetan name for the Tuyuhun kingdom Aza, a Hebrew romanization for Gaza City or Gaza Strip Aza (given...
and the Turks used it to launch their own raids into Hebei. Like the Tuyuhun and Tangut, the Khitan remained an intermediate power along the borderlands...
relation to other language families and their proto-languages Serbi–Mongolic (Donghu) Para-Mongolic (all extinct) Xianbei Khitan Tuyuhun Wuhuan Early Pre-Proto-Mongolic...
different Central Asian language before shifting to their current mother tongue, Dongxiang language, a member of the Mongolic languages. The name Dongxiang...
and conquered the Tuyuhun kingdom of Qinghai, which was a tributary state and important ally to the Tang dynasty. To help Tuyuhun restore the regime...
Daoyan (李道彥), and Gao Zengsheng (高甑生), to attack Tuyuhun. In 635, Li Jing's forces crushed the Tuyuhun forces. Murong Fuyun was killed by his own subordinates...
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