This article is about the Aceh-Chamic language family. For the group of Cham dialects, see Cham language.
Chamic
Aceh–Chamic
Geographic distribution
Indonesia (Aceh), Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China (Hainan Island), various countries with recent immigrants
Linguistic classification
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
disputed: Malayo-Sumbawan or Greater North Borneo
Malayo-Chamic
Chamic
Proto-language
Proto-Chamic
Subdivisions
Acehnese
Coastal (Cham)
Highlands (Cham)
ISO 639-2 / 5
cmc
Glottolog
cham1327(Aceh–Chamic) cham1330(Chamic)
The Chamic languages, also known as Aceh–Chamic and Acehnese–Chamic, are a group of ten languages spoken in Aceh (Sumatra, Indonesia) and in parts of Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Hainan, China. The Chamic languages are a subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian languages in the Austronesian family. The ancestor of this subfamily, proto-Chamic, is associated with the Sa Huỳnh culture, its speakers arriving in what is now Vietnam from Formosa.[1]
After Acehnese, with 3.5 million, Jarai and Cham are the most widely spoken Chamic languages, with about 230,000 and 280,000 speakers respectively, in both Cambodia and Vietnam. Tsat is the most northern and least spoken, with only 3000 speakers.
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substrata of Acehnese in Sumatra (Diffloth), the Chamiclanguages of Vietnam, and the Land Dayak languages of Borneo (Adelaar 1995). Diffloth's widely cited...
other Chamiclanguages, which are principally spoken in Vietnam and Cambodia. The distant relative of the Chamic family is the Malayic language family...
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of Ratanakiri. The language is in the Chamic subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, and is thus related to the Cham language of central Vietnam...
"island"). Most Austronesian languages are spoken by island dwellers. Only a few languages, such as Malay and the Chamiclanguages, are indigenous to mainland...
Acehnese belongs to the Chamiclanguages, a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian languages from the Austronesian languages. Languages that are closely related...
for a total of approximately 491,448 speakers. Cham belongs to the Chamiclanguages, which are spoken in parts of mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's...
Bahnaric languages to the east, the West Bahnaric languages were under Khmer rather than Chamic influence, and also by the Katuic languages as part of...
in Đơn Dương District) and in Ninh Thuận Province. Like the other Chamiclanguages spoken in Vietnam (Cham, Jarai, Rade and Roglai), use of Chru is declining...
spoken by the Utsul, a Cham subgroup on China's Hainan Island), the two Chamiclanguages from the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family. The Cham...
of the Chamic and Malayic languages rather than as part of them. Moklenic languages have also been strongly influenced by Austroasiatic languages, with...
The Roglai language is a Chamiclanguage of southern Vietnam, spoken by the Raglai people. There are four Roglai dialects: Northern, Du Long, Southern...
Haroi (Hroi) is a Chamiclanguage of Vietnam. It is spoken by the Cham Hroi living in Binh Dinh and Phu Yen provinces. Haroi at Ethnologue (25th ed.,...
former kingdom. They speak Chamiclanguages, a subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian closely related to the Malayic and Bali–Sasak languages that is spoken throughout...
millennium AD, the Chamiclanguages were a dialect chain along the Vietnam coast. The breakup of this chain into distinct languages occurred once the Vietnamese...
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Champa, putting the ancestors of the Jarai in the Malayo origins and Chamiclanguages. The modern Jarai people can be divided in six subgroups, the last...
Malaysia Kingdom of Champa 192 CE 1832 CE Indrapura, Vijaya, Panduranga Chamiclanguages, Sanskrit Vietnam Laos Cambodia Andhra Ikshvaku Dynasty 200 CE 275...
(2006) notes that Aslian languages have many Bornean and Chamic loanwords, pointing to a former presence of Bornean and Chamic speakers on the Malay Peninsula...
Ê Đê) is an Austronesian language of southern Vietnam. There may be some speakers in Cambodia. It is a member of the Chamic subgroup, and is closely related...
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