Laurent Sagart
William H. Baxter and Laurent Sagart (2014) reconstruct the Old Chinese name of Mán as *mˤro[n]. Baxter &amp; Sagart (2014) provide a similar Old Chinese reconstruction for "Min" *mrə[n] 'southern tribes', which is also a name for Fujian province. Today, similar-sounding self-designated ethnonyms among modern-day peoples include Mraṅmā, Hmong, Mien, Bru, Mro, Mru, and Maang. The ethnonym Hmong is reconstructed as *hmʉŋA in Proto-Hmongic by Ratliff (2010), while Mien is reconstructed as *mjænA in Proto-Mienic ("see Proto-Hmong–Mien language").