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.

All labels observed (4)

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

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Chamic language
Malayo-Polynesian language
associatedEthnicity Cham people
closelyRelatedTo Acehnese language
linked to: Acehnese

Jarai language
Roglai language
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnologueEntry Cham
glottocode east2332
west2590
hasAlternativeName Cham
Chamic
linked to: Chamic languages
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 script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Cham script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
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
linked to: southern Vietnam
religiousContext used in Hindu rituals among some Cham communities
used in Islamic liturgy among Cham Muslims
spokenBy Cham people
spokenIn Cambodia
Vietnam
linked to: Viet Nam
usesScript Arabic script
Cham script
Latin script
writingDirection left-to-right

How these facts were elicited

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 Eastern Cham language
linked to: Cham language
Chamic languages hasPart Western Cham language
linked to: Cham language
Chamic languages hasAlternativeName Cham languages
linked to: Cham language
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