Chakma language
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| Chakma Changma Vaj |
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| Spoken in: | Bangladesh and India | |
| Region: | Chittagong Hill Tracts | |
| Total speakers: | 612,207
312,207 in Bangladesh (2000 WCD), 300,000 in India (1987). |
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| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Group Bengali-Assamese Chakma |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sit | |
| ISO 639-3: | ccp | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Chakma language (Changma Vaj or Changma Kodha) is an Indo-European language spoken in southeastern Bangladesh and neighboring areas of India. Although the Chakma people historically spoke a language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman family, they have been heavily influenced by speakers of neighboring Chittagonian, an Eastern Indo-Aryan language closely related to Bengali. Many linguists now consider the modern Chakma language part of the Southeastern Bengali branch of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages. Changma Vaj is written in its own script, known as Ojhopath.
[edit] Dialects
There are six dialects, and Chakma in India can only be understood with difficulty by speakers of Chakma in Bangladesh.
