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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 ...
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.
- 320,000 (2002 – 2008 census)
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Tsat. 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 ...
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 ...
Of the nine Chamic languages, Jarai and Cham (including Western and Eastern) are the largest, with about 230,000 and 280,000 speakers respectively. Cham borrows heavily from Vietnamese and resembles both the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian languages. The Chamic languages with fewer numbers of speakers than either Jarai or Cham are Rade, Bih ...
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Chru, a Chamic language of south-central Vietnam, has been described as combining contrastive obstruent voicing with incipient registral properties (Fuller, 1977). A production study reveals that … Expand
