Cham language
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| Cham | ||
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| Pronunciation: | IPA: /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 Malayo-Polynesian Nuclear Malayo-Polynesian Sunda-Sulawesi Malayic Aceh-Chamic Chamic South Chamic Coastal South Chamic Cham-Chru Cham |
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| Writing system: | Cham alphabet (Vietnam), Arabic alphabet (Cambodia) | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | 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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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Cham is the language of the Cham people of Southeast Asia, and formerly the language 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, Haroi) and on the Chinese island of Hainan (Tsat). Cham is related to the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Indonesia, Malaysia, Madagascar and the Philippines.
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