Chakma language

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The Chakma language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Chakma people of Bangladesh and northeastern India.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chakma language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language
Indo-Aryan language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Assamese language
Bengali language
Sylheti language
country People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: People's Republic of Bangladesh

India
surface form: Republic of India
endangeredStatus vulnerable language
ethnicGroup Chakma people
hasAlternativeName Changma Kodha
Tsaangma language
hasDigitalEncoding Unicode
hasGlottocode chak1272
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh

India
hasMorphologyType agglutinative tendencies
hasOfficialStatusIn Tripura
surface form: Tripura, India
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops
tone-like pitch distinctions in some dialects
hasScriptType Brahmic script
hasStandardizationEffortsBy Chakma literary organizations
hasWritingDirection left-to-right
ISO639-2Code ccp
ISO639-3Code ccp
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
nativeName Changma Vaj
surface form: Changma Bhach

Changma Vaj
primaryScriptStandardized Chakma script
region South Asia
northeastern India
southeastern Bangladesh
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh

Hill Tracts of Chittagong
surface form: Chittagong Hill Tracts

India
Mizoram
Tripura
UnicodeBlock Chakma (U+11100–U+1114F)
usedByReligion Buddhism
Hinduism
usedFor education in some Chakma community schools
religious texts of Chakma Buddhists
writingSystem Bengali script
surface form: Bengali–Assamese script

Chakma script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bengali script usedFor Chakma language
Tripura hasTribalLanguage Chakma language