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Cham

Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Vietnam and Cambodia
Class type of: Chamic Q241146

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
language
Country
Vietnam, Cambodia[2][3]
Subclass of
Chamic[4]
Different from
Dijim-Bwilim[11]
Indigenous to
Chams[12]
Linguistic typology
subject–verb–object[13]
Native label
ꨌꩌ[10]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+400000[8]
Replaces
Old Cham[9]
Writing system
Latin script, Cham, Cham Jawi[5][6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Cham en Cham language cs čamština es idioma cham fa زبان چامی fi tšam hi चाम भाषा id bahasa Cham it lingua Cham ja チャム語 ko 참어 ms bahasa Cam pl Język czamski pt Língua cham ru тямский язык ru чамский язык th ภาษาจาม tr Çamca vi tiếng Chăm zh 占語
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Cham language.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300388084
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119816112
Encyclopaedia Beliana ID
camsky-jazyk
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Cham-language
Endangeredlanguages.com ID
4173
Freebase ID
/m/0bskhb
Glottolog code
cham1328
ISO 639-3 code
cja
J9U entity ID
987007284951605171
KBpedia ID
ChamLanguage
Krugosvet article (archived)
gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvistika/CHAMSKI_YAZIK.html
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Linguasphere code
31-MAC-c
NL CR AUT ID
ph759488

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🔗 Connections
Country 2
Vietnam, Cambodia
Subtypes 2
Eastern Cham, Western Cham
← Dialect of 2
Eastern Cham, Western Cham
← Language of work or name 2
Arabic script, Cham
Different from 1
Dijim-Bwilim
Indigenous to 1
Chams
Instance of 1
language
Linguistic typology 1
subject–verb–object
Subclass of 1
Chamic
Writing system 1
Cham
← FactGrid item ID 1
Twin Valley
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Summary

Cham is a language[1].

Related Entities

Cambodia Vietnam

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  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Dijim-Bwilim
    Subclass of → Chamic
    Linguistic typology → subject–verb–object
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → 400,000
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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