Cham script

E246231
Brahmic script abugida writing system

The Cham script is an abugida used historically and presently by the Cham people of Southeast Asia to write the Cham language, derived from and closely related to other Indic-derived scripts of the region.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Cham script canonical 10
Eastern Cham script 1
Western Cham script 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Brahmic script ⓘ
abugida ⓘ
writing system ⓘ
associatedReligion Buddhism ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
derivedFrom Pallava script ⓘ
digitalEncoding supported in Unicode ⓘ
direction left-to-right ⓘ
hasConsonantLetters true ⓘ
hasIndependentVowels true ⓘ
hasInherentVowel /a/ ⓘ
hasNuktaLikeSigns true ⓘ
hasNumerals true ⓘ
hasUnicodeBlock Cham ⓘ
hasVariant Cham script self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Cham script

Cham script self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Western Cham script
hasViramaLikeSign true ⓘ
hasVowelDiacritics true ⓘ
historicalUse inscriptions ⓘ
manuscripts ⓘ
influencedBy Grantha script ⓘ
ISO15924Code Cham ⓘ
ISO15924Number 358 ⓘ
region Cambodia ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ
Viet Nam ⓘ
surface form: Vietnam
relatedTo Balinese script ⓘ
Javanese script ⓘ
Khmer script ⓘ
Thai script ⓘ
scriptFamily Brahmic scripts ⓘ
Indic scripts ⓘ
scriptUserCommunity ethnic minority in Cambodia ⓘ
ethnic minority in Vietnam ⓘ
timePeriod at least from the 4th century CE ⓘ
UnicodeBlockRange U+AA00–U+AA5F ⓘ
usedBy Cham people ⓘ
Eastern Cham people ⓘ
Western Cham people ⓘ
usedFor Cham language ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
religious texts ⓘ
writingSystemClass abugida with inherent vowel ⓘ
writingSystemStatus currently used ⓘ
writingSystemType alphasyllabary ⓘ

Referenced by (12)

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

Brahmic scripts → influenced → Cham script ⓘ
Pallava script → influenced → Cham script ⓘ
Champa → hasWritingSystem → Cham script ⓘ
Pallava Grantha → influenced → Cham script ⓘ
Chamic languages → writingSystemUsed → Cham script ⓘ
Pallava dynasty → influenced → Cham script ⓘ
Cham script → hasVariant → Cham script self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eastern Cham script
Cham script → hasVariant → Cham script self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Western Cham script
Cham people → traditionalScript → Cham script ⓘ
Cham language → hasWritingSystem → Cham script ⓘ
Cham language → usesScript → Cham script ⓘ
Cham → usesScript → Cham script ⓘ