Kri,
Maleng (Malieng); Kri and Maleng are listed as Western Vietic, rather than as part of the Chut phylogenetic group, by Alves & Sidwell (2021)[3]
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.[2]
Distribution
Chứt languages are spoken in the following villages in Vietnam.[4]
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
^Chut at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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abBabaev, Kirill; Samarina, Irina (2021). Sidwell, Paul (ed.). A Grammar of May: An Austroasiatic Language of Vietnam. Brill. p. 14.
ISBN978-9-00446-108-6.
^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.
ISBN978-5-907117-34-1. (in Russian). p.16.
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.[full citation needed][ISBN missing]