Cham language

E356729

Cham language is an Austronesian language historically spoken by the Cham people of mainland Southeast Asia, particularly in present-day Vietnam and Cambodia.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Cham language canonical 12
Cham languages 1
Eastern Cham language 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Chamic language
Malayo-Polynesian language
associatedEthnicity Cham people
closelyRelatedTo Acehnese
surface form: Acehnese language

Jarai language
Roglai language
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnologueEntry Cham
glottocode east2332
west2590
hasAlternativeName Cham
Chamic languages
surface form: Chamic
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasConsonantInventoryFeature implosives in some dialects
prenasalized stops
hasDialect Eastern Cham
Western Cham
hasMorphologicalType moderately agglutinative
hasNativeName Cam
Chăm
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
toneAbsence
hasVowelInventoryFeature rich vowel system
hasWritingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Cham script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
historicallySpokenIn mainland Southeast Asia
iso6391Code none
iso6392Code cja
cjm
iso6393Code cja
cjm
languageBranch Chamic languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
region Cambodian lowlands
Central Vietnam
southern Vietnam
surface form: Southern Vietnam
religiousContext used in Hindu rituals among some Cham communities
used in Islamic liturgy among Cham Muslims
spokenBy Cham people
spokenIn Cambodia
Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
usesScript Arabic script
Cham script
Latin script
writingDirection left-to-right

Referenced by (15)

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

Champa hasLanguage Cham language
Phan Rang languageUsed Cham language
Chamic languages hasPart Cham language
Chamic languages hasPart Cham language
this entity surface form: Eastern Cham language
Chamic languages hasPart Cham language
this entity surface form: Western Cham language
Chamic languages hasAlternativeName Cham language
this entity surface form: Cham languages
Middle Vietnamese influencedBy Cham language
Utsat language hasOrigin Cham language
Utsat language relatedTo Cham language
Cham script usedFor Cham language
Indrapura hasLanguage Cham language
Panduranga culture Cham language
Cham people language Cham language
Cham people religiousTextLanguage Cham language
Kauthara language Cham language