Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Chakma people of India and Bangladesh
Chakma
Changhma, Daingnet
๐๐๐ด๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ด
'Changmha Bhach' in Chakma script
Native to
Bangladesh and India
Region
Chittagong Hill Tracts CADC, Mizoram Tripura Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnicity
Chakma, Daingnet
Native speakers
483,299 in Bangladesh (2022)[1] 228,000 in India (2011)[2]
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Eastern
BengaliโAssamese
Chakma
Writing system
Chakma script, Latin script, Bengali script[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ccp
Glottolog
chak1266
IETF
ccp
Chakma (/หtสษหkmษ/; autonym: ๐๐๐ด๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ด, Changhma Bhach) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Chakma and Daingnet people. The language has common features with other languages in the region like the Chittagonian, Tanchangya, Arakanese and others. It has 483,299 speakers in Bangladesh[1] primarily the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and another 230,000 in India, including 97,000 in Mizoram,[3] Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh. It is written using the Chakma script, but literacy in this script is low.
^ ab"Table A-1.4 Ethnic Population by Group and Sex" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. 2021. p. 33. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
^ abChakma language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^"Distict Census Handbook Lawngtlai" (PDF). Census of India 2011. Office of the Registrar General.
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