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Chakma
Changma Vaj
Spoken in: Bangladesh and India 
Region: Chittagong Hill Tracts
Total speakers: 612,207

312,207 in Bangladesh (2000 WCD), 300,000 in India (1987).

Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Indo-Aryan
   Eastern Group
    Bengali-Assamese
     Chakma
Language codes
ISO 639-1: None
ISO 639-2: sit
ISO 639-3: ccp

Chakma script

The Chakma language (Changma Vaj or Changma Khoda) is an Indo-European language spoken in southeastern Bangladesh and neighboring areas of India. Although the Chakma people originally belong to Sakya Clan of Magadha Kingdom (then Pataliputra, present Bihar-Nepal border) and originally spoke a language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman family, many have been heavily influenced by speakers of neighboring Chittagonian, an Eastern Indic language closely related to Bengali. Changma Vaj is written in its own script, known as Ojhopath.

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