ค่าง

See also: คาง

Thai

Etymology

In Southwestern Tai, cognate with Lao ຄ່າງ (khāng), Northern Thai ᨣ᩵ᩤ᩠ᨦ, Khün ᨣ᩵ᩤ᩠ᨦ, Lü ᦅᦱᧂᧈ (kaang¹), Shan ၵၢင်ႈ (kāang).

In other Tai, cognate with Zuojiang Zhuang kangh (Daxin dialect).^[1]

In relating to reconstructing Proto-Tai *kaŋᴬ¹ (“gibbon; large monkey”)^[2] (whence Thai กัง (gang, “Macaca nemestrina”)), Li (1977) referred to ค่าง (kâang) as following.

"There is another word, Siamese khaaŋ B2 (from PT *g-) 'a kind of monkey’, which is current among the SW dialects, cf. Shan kaŋ B2 'the white eyelid monkey’, Li kaŋ B2 'a big monkey’, etc., and Nung cang B2 'gibbon'."^[3]

Pronunciation

Orthographic/Phonemic		ค่าง g ˋ ā ŋ
Romanization	Paiboon	kâang
Romanization	Royal Institute	khang
(standard) IPA^(key)		/kʰaːŋ˥˩/^(R)
Homophones edit		ข้าง

Noun

ค่าง • (kâang) (classifier ตัว)

langur (Colobinae).

References

^ Zhang, Junru (张均如); et al. (1999) 壮语方言研究 [A Study of Zhuang Dialects] (in Chinese), Chengdu: Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House (四川民族出版社), page 613
^ Pittayawat Pittayaporn reconstructed the Proto-Tai form as *kaŋᴬ (“ape”). Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai (Doctoral dissertation)‎^[1], Department of Linguistics, Cornell University , pgae 327
^ Li, Fangkuei (1977) A Handbook of Comparative Tai, University of Hawaii Press, pages 188 - 189

[1] Zhang, Junru (张均如); et al. (1999) 壮语方言研究 [A Study of Zhuang Dialects] (in Chinese), Chengdu: Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House (四川民族出版社), page 613

[2] Pittayawat Pittayaporn reconstructed the Proto-Tai form as *kaŋᴬ (“ape”). Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai (Doctoral dissertation)‎^[1], Department of Linguistics, Cornell University , pgae 327

[3] Li, Fangkuei (1977) A Handbook of Comparative Tai, University of Hawaii Press, pages 188 - 189

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