Cham language
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Austronesian languages
- In Austronesian languages: Pre-16th century
The earliest dated inscription in Cham, the language of the Indianized kingdom of Champa in central Vietnam, bears a date of 829 ce, although some undated inscriptions may be older. An Old Malay stone inscription from central Java is dated to 832 ce and attests to the high prestige of…
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classification
- In Chamic languages
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…
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