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ccpChakma  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Chakma language (Changma Vaj or Changma Kodha) is an Indo-European language spoken by the Chakma people. Its better-known closest relatives are Bengali, Assamese, Chittagonian, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Tanchangya, Rohingya and Sylheti. It is spoken by nearly 310,000 people in southeast Bangladesh near Chittagong City, and another 300,000 in India in Mizoram, Assam, and Tripura. It is written using the Chakma script, which is also called   Ajhā pāṭh, sometimes romanized Ojhopath. Literacy in Chakma script is low.

Entry terms

  • Chakma language

ISO 639-3 code

  • ccp

Notation

  • ccp

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URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ccp

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