THOMAS, F. W.

Title Nam. An ancient language of the Sino-Tibetan borderland Text, with Introduction, Vocabulary and linguistic studies.
Publisher London Published for the Philological Society by O. U.P., G. Cumberledge
Date 1951
Book ID 31656

Description

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.
Price: £20.00

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