| Cham | ||
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| Pronunciation | /cam/ | |
| Spoken in | Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China (Hainan Island), various countries with recent immigrants | |
| Region | Southeast Asia | |
| Total speakers | 323,100 (Ethnologue, 2002) | |
| Language family | Austronesian
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| Writing system | Cham alphabet (Vietnam), Arabic alphabet (Cambodia) | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in | none, recognised as a minority language in Cambodia and Vietnam | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | variously: cja – Western Cham cjm – Eastern Cham huq – Tsat |
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Cham is the language of the Cham people of Southeast Asia, and formerly the language of the kingdom of Champa in central Vietnam. A member of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family, it is spoken by 100,000 people in Vietnam and up to 220,000 people in Cambodia (1992 estimate). There are also small populations of speakers in Thailand and Malaysia. Other Chamic languages are spoken in Vietnam (Raglai, Rhade, Jarai, Chru, H'roi) and on the Chinese island of Hainan (Tsat). Cham is related to the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Indonesia, Malaysia, Madagascar, and the Philippines.
Further reading
- Aymonier, Etienne and Antoine Cabaton (1906). Dictionnaire Cam-Français. Paris: Leroux.
- Blood, D. L., & Blood, D. (1977). East Cham language. Vietnam data microfiche series, no. VD 51-72. Huntington Beach, Calif: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- Blood, D. L. (1977). A romanization of the Cham language in relation to the Cham script. Vietnam data microfiche series, no. VD51-17. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- Moussay, Gerard (1971). Dictionnaire Cam-Vietnamien-Français. Phan Rang: Centre Culturel Cam.
- Thurgood, G. (1999). From ancient Cham to modern dialects: two thousand years of language contact and change. Oceanic linguistics special publication, no. 28. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 0824821319
See also
External links
- Entry for Cambodian Cham at Rosetta Project
- Entry for Eastern Cham at Rosetta Project
- Entry for Hainan Cham at Rosetta Project
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