The Chamic languages, also known as Aceh-Chamic and Acehnese-Chamic, are a group of ten languages spoken in Aceh 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 Huynh culture, its speakers arriving in what is now Vietnam from Formosa.
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Number of Languages RegionAceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, and parts of Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Hainan, China 2 In the Other Atlases
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1. Glottolog: Glottolog languoid cham1330
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"level": "family"
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"child_language_count": 12
View the Source 2. Chamic languages - Wikipedia
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spoken in Aceh (Sumatra, Indonesia) and in parts of Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Hainan, China.
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Proto-Chamic
View the SourceWikidata: Chamic
Wikidata Q2997506, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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