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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.
Cham (Cham: ꨌꩌ, Jawi: چام) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, spoken by the Chams of Southeast Asia.It is spoken primarily in the territory of the former Kingdom of Champa, which spanned modern Southern Vietnam, as well as in Cambodia by a significant population which descends from refugees that fled during the decline and fall of Champa.
Evidence gathered from linguistic studies around Aceh confirms that a very strong Chamic cultural influence existed in Indonesia; this is indicated by the use of the Chamic language Acehnese as the main language in the coastal regions of Aceh. Linguists believe the Acehnese language, a descendant of the Proto-Chamic language, separated from the ...
Tsat, also known as Utsat, Utset, Hainan Cham, or Huíhuī ( simplified Chinese: 回辉语; traditional Chinese: 回輝語; pinyin: Huíhuīyǔ ), is a tonal language spoken by 4,500 Utsul people in Yanglan ( 羊栏) and Huixin ( 回新) villages near Sanya, Hainan, China. Tsat is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian group within the Austronesian ...
ocm. Cham has the oldest literary history of any Austronesian language. The Dong Yen Chau inscription, written in Old Cham, dates from the late 4th century AD [1] . Old Cham originated from Proto-Chamic languages, however under cultural influence from India, it was greatly influenced by Sanskrit.
Proto-Chamic. Proto-Malayic. Proto-South Sulawesi. Proto-Celebic. Proto-Oceanic. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ( PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesian languages spoken ...
Classification WALS An > Malayo Sumbawan Ethnologue Austronesian > Malayo Polynesian > Malayo Sumbawan > Northandeast > Chamic
