Chut language

Chut
Ruc-Sach
Native to Vietnam, Laos
Native speakers
 1,300 (2007)[1]
Dialects
  • Cheut
  • Rục
  • Sách
  • Mày
  • Malieng
  • ? Kata
Language codes
ISO 639-3 scb
Glottolog chut1247[2]

Chut (Chứt, Cheut) or Ruc-Sach is a dialect cluster spoken by the Chut people of Vietnam, with a smaller population of some 450 speakers in neighbouring Laos (in Khammouane Province). It may be most closely related to Arem.

Chut has the four-way register system of Thavung augmented with pitch. Unlike modern Vietnamese, the Rục language still allows presyllables with a minor vowel, such as caku:4 "a bear" (cf. Vietnamese gấu).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Chut at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Chut". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Baxter, William H.; Sagart, Laurent (2014). Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. Oxford University Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-19-994537-5.

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.