Chut languages explained

Chut
Also Known As:	Ruc-Sach
Region:	Vietnam, Laos
Date:	2007
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austro-Asiatic
Fam2:	Vietic
Child1:	Rục
Child2:	Sách
Child3:	Mày
Child4:	Maleng
Child5:	? Kata
Iso3:	scb
Glotto:	chut1247
Glottorefname:	Chut

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).^[1]

• Mày, Rục, Sách
• Arem
• Kri, Maleng (Malieng); Kri and Maleng are listed as Western Vietic, rather than as part of the Chut phylogenetic group, by Alves & Sidwell (2021)^[2]

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.^[1]

Distribution

Chứt languages are spoken in the following villages in Vietnam.^[3]

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

• The Chứt 05:06 PM 21/01/2016
• Người Chứt Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs 03:44 PM 04/11/2015

Notes and References

1. Book: Babaev. Kirill. Samarina. Irina. Sidwell. Paul. 2021. A Grammar of May: An Austroasiatic Language of Vietnam. Brill. 978-9-00446-108-6. 14.
2. Sidwell . Paul . Paul Sidwell . Alves . Mark . 2021 . The Vietic languages: a phylogenetic analysis . . 19 . 3–4 . 166–194.
3. Babaev, Kirill Vladimirovich [Бабаев, Кирилл Владимирович]; Samarina, Irina Vladimirovna [Самарина, Ирина Владимировна]. 2019. Язык май. Материалы Российско-вьетнамской лингвистической экспедиции / Jazyk maj. Materialy Rossijsko-vetnamskoj lingvisticheskoj ekspeditsii. Moscow: Издательский Дом ЯСК. . . p.16.