làng

Cognate Vietnamese làng.

• IPA^(key): [lɐːŋ]

làng

1. village

• Michel Ferlus, 2014, Arem, a Vietic Language, Mon-Khmer Studies 43.1-15, page 9

• lang — nonstandard
• làŋ — very rare shorthand

làng (lang⁴, Zhuyin ㄌㄤˋ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埌
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 崀
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 浪
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狼
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 琅
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 莨
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蒗
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 踇
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 郌
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 郞
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 阃

Probably from a Hmong-Mien language, compare Iu Mien laangz (“village”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [laːŋ˨˩]
• Homophone: làn

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(classifier ngôi) làng • (廊)

1. (especially Northern Vietnam) a village (rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town)
2. (colloquial) circles; world

• There are multiple words for villages and it is not always clear what the differences are, although it does seem to be a matter of regional and ethnic preference. Northern villages of the ethnically Vietnamese are either làng or thôn. Highlanders' villages are bản, and Central Highland villages are buôn. Southern villages of the ethnically Vietnamese tend to be ấp, while Khmer villages are sóc.