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.[2] Unlike the Vietnamese language, Chứt still allows presyllables with a minor vowel, such as caku:⁴ "bear" (cf. Vietnamese gấu).[3]

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.^{[full citation needed][ISBN missing]}

External links

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

На других языках

[fr] Chut (langue)

[ru] Тьыт (язык)