The Chứt (Chut, Cheut) or Rục-Sách languages are a
Vietic language cluster spoken by the
Chứt peoples of Vietnam and
Khammouane Province, Laos.
Classification
The following three Chứt subgroups have been tentatively identified in Babaev & Samarina (2021).
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Mày,
Rục,
Sách
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Arem
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Kri,
Maleng
Maleng (autonym: /malɛ̤ŋ²/), also known as Pakatan and Bo, is a Vietic language of Laos and Vietnam.
Maleng has the four-way register system of Thavung augmented with pitch.Sidwell, PaulVietic languages Mon-Khmer Languages Project.
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(Malieng); Kri and Maleng are listed as Western Vietic, rather than as part of the Chut phylogenetic group, by Alves & Sidwell (2021)
Except for the semi-nomadic and sedentary agriculturalist Sach and the swidden agriculturalist Kri, the May, Ruc, Arem, and Maleng were all hunter-gatherers until the late 20th century.
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Distribution
Chứt languages are spoken in the following villages in Vietnam.[Babaev, Kirill Vladimirovich �абаев, Кирилл Владимирович Samarina, Irina Vladimirovna �амарина, Ирина Владимировна 2019. Язык май. Материалы Российско-вьетнамской лингвистической экспедиции / ''Jazyk maj. Materialy Rossijsko-vetnamskoj lingvisticheskoj ekspeditsii''. Moscow]
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;Sách
*Lâm Hóa
*Hóa Tiến
*Lâm Sum
*Hóa Hợp
*Hóa Lương
*Thượng Hóa
;Mày
*Ca Oóc
*Bai Dinh
*Cha Lo
;Rục
*Yên Hợp
*Phú Minh
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 Sciences Publishing House.
External links
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