Tonally defined deictic paradigms of White Hmong & Vietnamese are described & related to three claims regarding the prelinguistic basis of proximal/distal pairings in the world's languages. In addition to proximal & medial demonstratives in Vietnamese that are differentiated only by tone, examples are cited of derived anaphorics in both White Hmong & Vietnamese in which an additive distal meaning 'there' is expressed by a marked tone: a derived low rising tone noted as -d in Hmong orthography & a long first-register tone noted (glottal stop) in Vietnamese orthography. It is argued that (1) a contrast between present-reference behaviors & displacement or projected-reference behaviors underlies the universal linguistic tendency to pair & contrast proximal & distal deixis, respectively; (2) this is a crucial distinction between the accessible environment & reference that requires conceptual projection or strategic intelligence; & (3) the latter is consequently more highly marked than the former. 8 Tables, 14 References. J. Hitchcock