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).
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)
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.
Distribution Chứt languages are spoken in the following villages in Vietnam.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.
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