Talk:Mường language

Does Muong have a standard written system? And if it was also heavily influenced by Chinese, do "Sino-Muong" words appear the same as "Sino-Viet." words? Le Anh-Huy 12:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

External links

Please add some external links for examples of the language. It is very, very interesting but the stub is too short. For those of us who want to learn more. - Pernambuco 19:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Source citation and some confusion.

First, this article doesn't have any citations to say that the Muong language is tonal, or indeed any citations at all. Second, I can't find much on "Muong language" anywhere else on the web that doesn't pull directly from this page. However, I can and do find the terms Viet-muong and Mon-Khmer languages or language groups. Problem is, the Mon-Khmer language group is atonal (in other words, it is NOT tonal). Why is this a problem? I think I heard that the Muong language, or at least that of the mountainards (which as I understand is a synonym for the Muong), is descend from this language group. Could someone please clear this up?--Light Dragon 20:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/ldtc/languages/nguon/

Rajmaan (talk) 02:27, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

The article has two references, which both describe the tones of Mường. Proto-Mon–Khmer may have been atonal, but the Vietic subgroup is tonal. MuDavid (talk) 07:08, 14 July 2014 (UTC)