Where does “phân biệt vùng miền” come from?

phân biệt vùng miền (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese vùng miền, from Vietnamese miền, from Chinese 面, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-mjal — face.

phân biệt vùng miền (Vietnamese): regionalism or regional classism

Definitions

  1. regionalism or regional classism

Ancestry of “phân biệt vùng miền”, step by step

phân biệt vùng miền traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese vùng miền

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesevùng miềnregions
2Vietnamesemiềnregion, district; domain
3Chinese面—
4Proto-Sino-Tibetans-mjalface

via Vietnamese phân biệt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesephân biệtto distinguish; to discriminate; to discern
2Chinese分別to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to...
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-mjal →Every word from Chinese 面 →Every word from Vietnamese miền →