Chứt (Chut, Cheut) or Rục-Sách is a

dialect cluster A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated vari ...

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 The Vietic languages are a branch of the Austroasiatic language family, spoken by the Vietic peoples in Laos and Vietnam. The branch was once referred to by the terms ''Việt–Mường'', ''Annamese–Muong'', and ''Vietnamuong''; the term ''V ...

that may be most closely related to Arem. Chứt has the four-way

register Register or registration may refer to: Arts entertainment, and media Music * Register (music), the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc. * ''Register'', a 2017 album by Travis Miller * Registration (organ), th ...

system like Thavung augmented with pitch. Unlike the

Vietnamese language Vietnamese ( vi, tiếng Việt, links=no) is an Austroasiatic language originating from Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by over 70 million people, several times as many as the rest of the ...

, 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 Chứt
05:06 PM 21/01/2016

Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs 03:44 PM 04/11/2015 Languages of Vietnam Languages of Laos Vietic languages {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub