William J. Gedney's Western Nung (Nùng Dín/Nong Zhuang)

In 1964 and 1964-69, linguist William J. Gedney obtained his data of Western Nung (or Nùng Dín/Nong Zhuang) from Muong Khuong (mɯɤŋ⁴ kʰɯɤŋ¹),  Ban Lao (ba:n³ law⁵), Muong Thin (mɯɤŋ⁴ tʰin⁵ na:⁴) refugees living in Vientiane, Laos. Muong Khuong and Ban Lao are located in Vietnamese side of the Sino-Vietnamese border, whereas Muong Thin is located in Chinese side of the Sino-Vietnamese border.

Western Nung's lexical items collected by William J. Gedney

English	Western Nung (IPA)
to strain	cii1
to borrow	cii2
how many	cii3
flag	cii4
to point	cii6
to soak	cii5
dipnet	bak6
to level ground	cak4
flower	dɔk2
child	luk5
to go	paj1
to light	tem3
to eat	cin1
before	kɔn2
saddle	ʔa:n1
we	pʰɯ:1
closely placed	tʰi:2
pungent	cʰuŋ3
rice	kʰaw3
village	ba:n3
navel	dɯj1
to burn	maj3
water	nam6
to flee	ɲi:1
snake	ŋu:4
comb	vi:1
dry field	ðaj5
to dry	leŋ6
to be at	jiw2
to fence	hom6
to converge	cʰon3
eight (8)	pɛt2
six (6)	cʰɔk6
first	ciŋ1
to steam	nɯŋ3
hole	ðu:4
tendon	jen4
gums	ŋɤk2
neck	ho:4
to cut	hɛ:5
just	sak6
root	la:k5
base	kɔk6
wrinkle	šiw2
to flee	tew4
to embroider	sɛw3
to blow	paw2
to announce	pa:w2
to wash	sɯj2
kind of nut	tuj2
to cough	ʔaj1
to clear weeds	ba:j1
sugarcane	ʔɔj3
light (not heavy)	naɰ3

Western Nung has six tones: 1-low rising /14/ 2-low-falling /21/ 3-mid-low level, glottalized /22/ 4-mid-high level /44/ 5-mid-falling /31/ 6-high level, glottalized /55/