Tangut people - Wikipedia. The Tangut people (Tangut: 𗼎𗾧, mjɨ nja̱ or 𗼇𘓐, mji dzjwo; Chinese:, dǎngxiàng) were a Sino-Tibetan tribal union that inhabited Western Xia.The group lived under Tuyuhun authority and moved to Northwest China sometime before the 10th century …