Chamic languages
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| Chamic languages Cham |
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| Spoken in: | Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China (Hainan Island), various countries with recent immigrants | |
| Region: | Southeast Asia | |
| Total speakers: | ||
| Language family: | Austronesian Chamic languages |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | to be added | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Chamic languages are a group of nine languages spoken in parts of Vietnam and Cambodia, classified as West Indonesian languages in the Hesperonesian group of the Austronesian language family.
Jarai and Cham (including Western and Eastern) are the most widely spoken out of the nine, with about 230,000 and 280,000 speakers respectively. The Cham language is very similar to Vietnamese and has aspects of Mon-Khmer.
