Chut

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The Chut are a small ethnic minority group in Vietnam, culturally and linguistically related to the majority Kinh people but maintaining distinct traditional customs and language varieties.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chut canonical 3
Chứt 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
ethnic minority in Vietnam
country Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
culturallyRelatedTo Kinh people
ethnolinguisticGroup Vietic peoples
facingIssue language shift to Vietnamese
loss of traditional culture
hasAutonym Chut self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chứt
hasCollectiveNameForSubgroups Arem
Mã Liềng
Ruc
Sach
hasCulturalPractice folk songs
oral tradition
traditional rituals
hasCustom distinct traditional customs
swidden agriculture
hasEconomy subsistence economy
hasLanguage Arem language
Chut language
Mã Liềng language
Rục language
surface form: Ruc language

Sach language
hasLifestyle formerly semi-nomadic
languageFamily Austroasiatic
surface form: Austroasiatic languages

Vietic languages
languageStatus endangered languages
locatedIn Central Vietnam
Quang Binh Province
surface form: Quang Binh province
neighboringEthnicGroups Bru-Van Kieu
Phong
partOf ethnic minorities of Vietnam
populationStatus endangered ethnic group
small population
recognizedAs one of the officially recognized ethnic groups of Vietnam
recognizedBy Government of Vietnam
region Annamite Range
surface form: Truong Son (Annamite) Range

border area near Laos
relatedEthnicity Kinh people
religion ancestor worship
animism
subjectTo Vietnamese government resettlement policies
cultural assimilation pressures
traditionalHousing cave dwellings
temporary shelters
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
usesScript Latin-based Vietnamese script (for official purposes)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kinh relatedEthnicGroup Chut
Chut hasAutonym Chut self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Chứt