Author: THOMAS, F. W.
Title: Nam. An Ancient Language of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland Text, with Introduction, Vocabulary and Linguistic Studies.
Description: London, Published for the Philological Society by O. U.P. G. Cumberledge, 1951. With vocabulary, sketch map, indices. Usual green printed boards, no dust-wrapper as published, 469pp. Most pages unopened, tie mark to upper spine else excellent. In very good condition. Unused. Nam is an unclassified extinct language preserved in Tibetan transcriptions in a number of Dunhuang manuscript fragments. F. W. Thomas, English Indologist and Tibetologist, was librarian at the India Office and taught Comparative Philology at University College London. He compiled a catalogue of MS brought to London by Aurel Stein. Hardcover.

Keywords: Sino-Tibetan|Nam|Ancient Languages|Dictionary|Tibetan|Featured


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