Contributing some additional data to the relationship between the Thai and the Muong in Vietnam

Abstract

Based on historical data and linguistics, the author explains the relationship between the Thai and the Muong in Vietnam. In his opinion, since the ancient times the relationships between the Viet-Muong and the Thai ethnic groups in the Northern Vietnamese regions have formed the present date Muong ethnic group.  This is different from the viewpoint that the Muong have just been established in the AD period and explains why there are vestiges of the Thai people in the Muong ethnic minority areas in Hoa Binh province.