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The Cham script is used to write Cham , an Austronesian language spoken by the Cham People in Vietnam and Cambodia . Cham has about 230,000 speakers. The Cham script is one of the first scripts to develop from the early Brahmi Alphabet of India , beginning by 200 AD. Like all the Brahmic Family , it is a syllabic alphabet, and is thus classed as an "'' Abugida ''". It is written horizontally, and left to right, as in English. The Cham now live in two isolated groups: Western Cham in Cambodia, and Eastern Cham in Vietnam. Each uses a distinct variety of the script, although the former are mostly Muslim and now prefer to use the Arabic Alphabet . The latter are mostly Hindu, and still use their own alphabet. During French colonial times, both groups had to use the Latin Alphabet . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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