Back Bahsa Cham ACE Llingües chámiques AST Mga tataramon na Tsamiko BCL Chamische Sprachen German Lenguas chámicas Spanish Langues chamiques French चामी भाषाएँ HI Čamski jezici Croatian Rumpun bahasa Chamik ID Sasao a Chamiko ILO
| Chamic | |
|---|---|
| Aceh–Chamic | |
| Geographic distribution | Indonesia (Aceh), Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China (Hainan Island), various countries with recent immigrants |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Proto-language | Proto-Chamic |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 / 5 | cmc |
| Glottolog | cham1327 (Aceh–Chamic)cham1330 (Chamic) |
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The Chamic languages, also known as Aceh–Chamic and Acehnese–Chamic, are a group of ten languages spoken in Aceh (Sumatra, Indonesia) and in parts of Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Hainan, China. The Chamic languages are a subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian languages in the Austronesian family. The ancestor of this subfamily, proto-Chamic, is associated with the Sa Huỳnh culture, its speakers arriving in what is now Vietnam from Formosa.[1]
The most widely spoken Chamic languages are Acehnese with 3.5 million speakers, Cham with about 280,000, and Jarai with about 230,000, in both Cambodia and Vietnam. Tsat is the most northern and least spoken, with only 3000 speakers.