Region Central Asia ISO 639-3 None (mis) | Era ? Glottolog namm1235 | |
Language family Sino-Tibetan
(unclassified)
Nam | ||
Nam is an undeciphered language preserved in Tibetan transcriptions in a number of Dunhuang manuscript fragments currently held at the British Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
According to Ikeda Takumi, the research of F. W. Thomas, published in 1948, concluded that Nam "was one of the old Qiang [languages] spoken around the Nam mountain range near Koko nor in Qinghai province", associated with a country called Nam tig which is mentioned in some historical records. However, Ikeda further states that Thomas' conclusions were widely criticized.
Glottolog accepts that it was at least Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman.
References
Nam language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA