Cham script

Cham script
Akhara Cam
ꨀꨇꩉ ꨌꩌ
Script type
Time period
c. 350 CE – present[1]
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesCham, Sanskrit
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
Khmer, Kawi, Old Mon, Grantha, Tamil
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Cham (358), ​Cham
Unicode
Unicode alias
Cham
U+AA00–U+AA5F
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Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Southern Brahmic
Closeup of the inscription on the Po Nagar stele, 965. The stele describes feats by the Champa kings.
A Champa manuscript recounting the social culture of the Cham community of the early 18th century

The Cham script (Cham: ꨀꨇꩉ ꨌꩌ)is a Brahmic abugida used to write Cham, an Austronesian language spoken by some 245,000 Chams in Vietnam and Cambodia.[3] It is written horizontally left to right, just like other Brahmic abugidas.

  1. ^ Marrison 1975, pp. 52–59.
  2. ^ Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride(2019),p.29
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Uni11 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).