1878 C. J. F. S. Forbes Brit. Burma & its People ii. 32 These aboriginal tribes exist to the present day as the Miau or Miautze, the Nung, Lolo, Yau, and other wild inhabitants of the mountain ranges of South-Western China.

1923 Geogr. Jrnl. 62 13 The Nungs of the Taron are fairly well off in some respects, since Chinese traders from the east and Tibetan traders from the north can reach them.

1940 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 5 116 Nung (Burmic).

1954 E. R. Leach Polit. Syst. Highland Burma iii. 45 Nung—several distinct dialects. Rawang and Daru dialects said to be mutually unintelligible.

1994 J. Bybee et al. Evol. of Gram. v. 131 Another ‘to be’ verb also exists in Nung.

2011 S. Gros in J. Michaud & T. Forsyth Moving Mountains ii. 36 The British..used the category of Nung to encompass whole populations along the Sino-Burmese border.

1916 Geogr. Jrnl. 47 48 The Lutzu speak a language very similar to the Nung language of the Taron.

1934 J. T. O. Barnard Handbk. of Răwang Dial. of Nung Lang. p. v This is the first book on the Nung language, which has many dialects, of which, however, Răwang may be taken as the one most commonly spoken.

1954 E. R. Leach Polit. Syst. Highland Burma iii. 59 In parts of their area Nung villages are closely mixed with Lisu villages.

2007 Ja Nan Lahtaw in N. Ganesan & Kyaw Yin Hlaing Myanmar x. 239 Those who support the Nung tribe as separate from Rawang say that Nung language is different from that of Rawang.

1887 T. de Lacouperie Lang. of China before Chinese 50 As among the Tsing Tchung Kia, the Huang and Nung tribes.

1923 W. C. Dodd Tai Race ix. 133 Two of the men in the station-house gave us both Tō and Nung words in exchange for Yuan ones.

1950 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. 9/1 Without the support of the hill villages, the Vietminh has had difficulty in developing its guerrilla warfare in Nung areas.

1984 Times 4 May 5/8 The Times..was taken to interview one of the injured in the provincial hospital at Lang Son, a young Nung minority farmer.

2002 P. M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam ii. 76 Ho Chi Minh..was known to dress in Nung style and to speak some Nung words.

1923 W. C. Dodd Tai Race 133 [The Tō] cultivate their fields and gardens better, live in cleaner houses, and seem generally thriftier and more intelligent than the Nung.

1943 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 63 171/1 The neuter sibling terms are treated in relatively uniform fashion in all Thai languages except Nung.

1964 Te Reo 7 15 (title of paper) A phonemic description of Nong (Nung).

1983 Pacific Affairs 56 421 Villagers belonging to ‘big’ ethnic groups (such as the Vietnamese, the Tay, the Nung, and the Khmu).

1992 Guardian 5 Aug. 8/7 Few people knew that Nungs were among the tens of thousands of boat people in Hong Kong's crowded detention centres.

2007 B. Nguyen in B. S. McElhinny Words, Worlds, & Material Girls x. 359 Although most children under five could not speak Tay or Nung, most children over five often used them when talking to family members or friends.