Talk:Vietic languages

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Viet-Muong is clearly a branch of Vietic. It's thought that the two languages split during the Chinese Emperial era. I'm replacing the Ethnologue classification with one that recognizes this, and moving the article from Viet-Muong to Vietic. Ethnologue remains as an external link. kwami 10:19, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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"vọoc", "khái", "cúi"? What are these animals? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.255.223.72 (talk) 04:51, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * "voọc": likely originally meant all species of monkeys, now restricted to some species of monkeys; "khái" Nghệ An dialectal word for "tiger"; "cúi" archaic, now almost obsolete word for pig, still used in North Central (Bắc Trung Bộ).Erminwin (talk) 02:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, as far as I know, "cúi" is completely obsolete actually; I'm not aware of any dialect that still uses cúi as the normal word for "pig", although it does live on in compounds such as "cá cúi".PhanAnh123 (talk) 03:16, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * "khái" is even mentioned in the Vietnamese Wikipedia page for "tiger" while voọc is abundantly attested.PhanAnh123 (talk) 03:16, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * "voọc is abundantly attested". Indeed, I remember seeing the noun voọc for the 1st time on a sign in Thảo Cầm Viên Sài Gòn.Erminwin (talk) 03:34, 8 May 2020 (UTC)