Chứt (Chut, Cheut) or Rục-Sách is a
dialect cluster spoken by the
Chứt people of Vietnam, with a smaller population of some 450 speakers in neighbouring
Khammouane Province, Laos. It is a
Vietic language that may be most closely related to
Arem.
Chứt has the four-way
register system like
Thavung augmented with
pitch. Unlike the
Vietnamese language
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, Chứt still allows presyllables with a minor vowel, such as ''caku:
4'' "bear" (cf. Vietnamese ''gấu'').
References
*Ta Long (1975). "About the human community relationship between the three groups of 'Machines', Ruc, Books". In Vietnam Social Science Commission: Institute of Ethnology. On the issue of identifying the minority population in northern Vietnam, p. 518-530. Hanoi: Social science publisher.
External links
The Chứt05:06 PM 21/01/2016
Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs 03:44 PM 04/11/2015
Languages of Vietnam
Languages of Laos
Vietic languages
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