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Origin of name

The name Hồng Bàng is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of characters " 鴻 龐 " assigned to this dynasty in early Vietnamese-written histories in Chinese; its meaning is supposedly a mythical giant (龐) bird (鴻).

French linguist Michel Ferlus (2009) includes 文 郎 Văn Lang (Old Chinese: ZS * mɯn - raːŋ; B&S * mə - C.rˤaŋ) in the word-family * -ra:ŋ "human being, person" of Southeast Asian ethnonyms across three linguistic families, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, together with:

There also exists a phonetically similar Proto-Mon-Khmer etymon: * t₂nra:ŋ "man, male".

The earliest historical mentions of Văn Lang, however, just had been recorded in Chinese-language documents, dated back to the Tang dynasty (7th- to 9th-century), about the area of Phong Châu (Phú Thọ). However, Chinese records also indicated that another people, who lived elsewhere, were also called Văn Lang.