Eastern Cham
Phan Rang Cham; Cham; Cham (Eastern); Tjam; Chiem; Chiem Thà nh; Bhamam; Bình Thuân;
Austronesian; Malayo-Polynesian; Malayo-Chamic; Chamic
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"Spoken Eastern Cham is ... the dominant language in Cham villages and that the children of the few Vietnamese families who have resettled in these villages typically have a good, if not native, command of Cham." (Brunelle 2008)
2008
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the provinces of Ninh Thuận and Binh Thuận of the south-central coast in Vietnam
11.683, 108.86; 11.104, 108.075
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formal domains or when talking about technical or socioculturlal topics
Almost all the Phang Rang Cham speakers are bilingual in Cham and Vietnamese. The schooling system and the official language in Vietnam is Vietnamese which has influenced Phang Rang Cham in terms of lexicon, syntax and phonology.
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There were 72,900 speakers in Viet Nam in 2002.
2009
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USA; Vietnam;
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1999
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Vietnam
11.562, 108.994
Eastern Cham is spoken in and around the city of Phan Rang, in southern Vietnam.
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Eastern Cham is spoken in and around the city of Phan Rang, in southern Vietnam.
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mostly in Ninh Thuan Province;
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the Akhar Thrah scripts (traditional Cham scripts)
mostly in Ninh Thuan Province;
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Phan Rang Cham speakers have developed teaching materials.
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
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- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change: With an Appendix of Chamic Reconstructions and LoanwordsGraham Thurgood. 1999. "From Ancient Cham To Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change: With An Appendix of Chamic Reconstructions and Loanwords." Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications, No. 28. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- Diglossia, Bilingualism and the Revitalizaton of Written Eastern ChamBrunelle, Marc (2008). Diglossia, Bilingualism and the Revitalization of Written Eastern Cham. Language Documentation of Conservation 2.1: 28-46.http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/1848/10/brunellesmall.pdf
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