Chut languages

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title: "Chut languages" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["languages-of-vietnam", "languages-of-laos", "vietic-languages"] description: "Austroasiatic language cluster of Vietnam and Laos" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chut_languages" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Austroasiatic language cluster of Vietnam and Laos ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox language family"]

Field	Value
name	Chut
altname	Ruc-Sach
region	Vietnam, Laos
speakers
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
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|name=Chut |altname=Ruc-Sach |region=Vietnam, Laos |speakers= |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).

• 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.

;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.

References

1. (2021). "A Grammar of May: An Austroasiatic Language of Vietnam". Brill.
2. (2021). "The Vietic languages: a phylogenetic analysis". [[Journal of Language Relationship]].
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: [http://www.lrc-press.ru/ Издательский Дом ЯСК]. {{isbn. 978-5-907117-34-1. {{in lang. ru. p.16.

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