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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.
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The Austronesian speakers who arrived on the coast of the Southeast Asian mainland spoke a basically disyllabic language with a relatively modest vowel inventory. The morphemes were typically disyllabic, more specifically, cvcv(C), and there were four basic vowels: *-a, *-i, *-u, *-e (= [-g] ) and three final diphthongs: *-ay, *-ui, and *-aw ...
The Chamic languages are a Malayo-Polynesian sub-grouping that underwent a remarkable typological and lexical transformation through prolonged contact with Mon-Khmer (and possibly other) languages. This historical process was analyzed in great detail
- Paul Sidwell
Paul Sidwell. 1. Introduction. The starting point for this paper is the treatment of Acehnese as a Chamic language by Thurgood (1999) (henceforth 'Thurgood'). hile many scholars (e.g. Niemann 1891, Cowan 1933, 1 948, 1974, 198 1, Shorto 1975, 1977, Collins 1969, 1975, Blust 1981, Durie 1990 and others) have noted that, although widely separated ...
v. t. e. Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating limited information. [2] Such systems emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early Neolithic, as early as the 7th millennium BC in China and southeastern Europe. They used ideographic or early mnemonic symbols or both to represent a limited number of concepts, in ...
1. Introduction. The aims of this paper are: (i) to report new dialect data for a vowel in Acehnese which was not recorded in earlier descriptive work, (ii) to. this contrast is cognate with a contrast reconstructed for Proto-Chamic, (iii) to reconstruct this part of the vowel system of Proto-Aceh-Chamic.2.
