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Nam, An Ancient Language of The Sino-Tibetan Borderland: Text, with Introduction, Vocabulary, and Linguistic Studies. By F. W. Thomas. pp. xii, 469; 10 facsimile plates and sketch map. London: Published for the Phiological Society by Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1948.

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References

page 1056 note 1 F. W. Thomas, “The Nam Language,” JRAS., 1939.

page 1056 note 2 Wen Yu, “A Tentative Classification of the Ch'iang Languages in North-Western Szechwan,” Studia Serica, ii, 1941; “Phonology of the Ch'iang Language,” ibidem, iii, 1943; ditto (another dialect), v, 1945.

page 1057 note 1 F. W. Thomas, S. Miyamoto, and G. L. M. Clauson, “A Chinese Mahayana Catechism in Tibetan and Chinese Letters,” JRAS., 1929.

page 1057 note 2 E. Grant Brown, “The Kadus of Burma,” p. 11, BSOS., i, 1920.

page 1057 note 3 R. Shafer, “The Vooalism of Sino-Tibetan,” JAOS., 1941, p. 27.

page 1058 note 1 S. N. Wolfenden, “Notes on the Jyarung Dialect of Eastern Tibet,” T'oung Pao, 1936. Cf., however, K. Shafer, in BSL, xlvi, 1950.

page 1059 note 1 S. N. Wolfenden, “On the Prefixes and Finals of Si-Hia,” JRAS., 1934.

page 1059 note 2 B. Karlgren, Grammata Serica, no. 826.

page 1059 note 3 R. Shafer, “The Vooalism of Sino-Tibetan,” p. 20, JAOS., 1941.

page 1059 note 4 For the final occlusive in Burmese and Maru, see Shafer, op. cit., 1940, p. 311. On the Chinese side, “kernel, core”, may be compared. It is not included by Karlgren, op. cit., under no. 730, but an Archai may surely be reconstructed.