Tags: Language.
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.