Where does “tiếng Bắc” come from?

tiếng Bắc (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese tiếng, from Middle Chinese 聲 — sound, voice.

tiếng Bắc (Vietnamese): the Northern dialects of the Vietnamese languages

Definitions

  1. the Northern dialects of the Vietnamese languages

Ancestry of “tiếng Bắc”, step by step

tiếng Bắc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Vietnamese tiếng

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vietnamesetiếngvoice; sound; language
2Middle Chinese聲sound, voice

via Vietnamese Bắc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1VietnameseBắcNorth
2Middle Chinese北—
Every word from Middle Chinese 聲 →Every word from Vietnamese tiếng →