"Yang" < *"laŋ" compares with Lepcha "a-lóŋ" "reflecting light", Burmese "laŋB" "be bright" and "ə-laŋB" "light"; and is perhaps cognate with Chinese "chāng" < *"k-hlaŋ" "prosperous; bright" (compare areal words like Tai "plaŋA1" "bright" & Proto-Viet-Muong "hlaŋB"). To this word-family, Unger (Hao-ku, 1986:34) also includes "bǐng" < "*pl(j)aŋʔ" "bright"; however Schuessler reconstructs "bǐng'"s Old Chinese pronunciation as *"braŋʔ" and includes it in an Austroasiatic word family, besides "liàng" < *"raŋh" "shuǎng" < *"sraŋʔ" "twilight (of dawn)"; "míng" < "mraŋ" "bright, become light, enlighten"; owing to "the different OC initial consonant which seems to have no recognizable OC morphological function".