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Chakma District
Chakma may refer to: * Chakma people, a Tibeto-Burman people of Bangladesh and Northeast India * Chakma Circle, chiefdom of Chakma people * Chakma language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them ** Chakma script *** Chakma (Unicode block) Chakma is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Chakma language Chakma (; autonym: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European language family, whose speakers are known as the Chakma or the Daingnet people. It has 74 ... * Chakma (surname) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakma People
The Chakma or Changhma people (, 𑄌𑄇𑄴𑄟), are an ethnic group and nation native to the Indian subcontinent and Western Myanmar. They are the largest indigenous group and as well as the second largest ethnic group of the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of southeastern Bangladesh. They also form the majority in Chakma Autonomous District Council of Mizoram. Significant Chakma populations are found in the northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Assam and Rakhine State of Myanmar. The Chakma possess strong ethnic affinities to Tibeto-Burman-speaking groups in Northeast India. Because of a language shift in the past to consolidate power among the tribes, they adopted an Indo-Aryan language Chakma, which is closely related to Pali and the Chittagonian language, predominant near the areas in which they live. Most modern Chakma people practice Theravada Buddhism, due to 19th-century reforms and institutionalisation by Queen regnant Rani Kalindi. In Myanmar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakma Circle
The Chakma Circle (, ), also known as the Chakma Raj (), is one of three hereditary chiefdoms (or "Circles") in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of modern-day Bangladesh. The Chakma Circle encompasses parts of Rangamati Hill District and Dighinala and Rajasthali Upazilas in neighbouring Khagrachari District and Bandarban District respectively. The chiefdom's members are of Chakma descent. Leadership The Chakma Circle is led by a hereditary chieftain called a raja, whose role encompasses judicial, administrative, ceremonial, legal and social responsibilities. Political power is passed from the father to the first-born son. The incumbent chieftain is Devasish Roy (b. 10 April 1959), according to the ''Chakma Bijok'', a compilation of the Chakma history (1876-1934 CE). The Chakma chieftain also sits on the Advisory Council for the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs and the Rangamati Hill District Council. The Chakma chieftain leads a rajpunyah festival. History Pre-colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakma Language
Chakma (; autonym: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European language family, whose speakers are known as the Chakma or the Daingnet people. It has 740,000 speakers, with 60% residing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh and 35% spread across Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram and Tripura in India. The remaining 5% live in Myanmar. The language has it own script, the Chakma script or the ''ajhapat'' (), which is an abugida similar other South-east Asian scripts. It is mutually intelligible with the Chittagonian language. Similarities of the Chakma language with Sanskrit, Maghadi Prakrit and with Pali is visible referring it to be a classical language. This suggests that the Chakmas have been present in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times. Cultural exchanges with neighboring communities have led to the adoption of Indo-Aryan and Arakanese terms. Studies suggest that the language may have originally been a Tibeto-Burman language before tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakma Script
The Chakma Script (), also called Ajha Path, is an abugida used for the Chakma language, and recently for the Pali language. History The Chakma script is an abugida that belongs to the Brahmic scripts, Brahmic family of scripts. Chakma evolved from the Burmese script, which was ultimately derived from Pallava script, Pallava. Proto Chakma developed around the 6th century CE. Old Chakma developed in the 8th century CE. Classical Literary Chakma was used in the 11th to 15th centuries and the current Standard Chakma was developed and revived in the 20th century. The script, along with the Chakma language, has been introduced to non-government schools in Bangladesh, and as well as schools in Mizoram. Structure Chakma is of the Brahmic type: the consonant letters contain an inherent vowel. Unusually for Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, the inherent vowel in Chakma is a long 'ā' (Open central unrounded vowel, a) as opposed to short 'a' (open-mid back rounded vowel, ɔ). Consonant cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakma (Unicode Block)
Chakma is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Chakma language Chakma (; autonym: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European language family, whose speakers are known as the Chakma or the Daingnet people. It has 740,000 speakers, with 60% residing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Banglade ... of Bangladesh and eastern India. History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Chakma block: References {{reflist Unicode blocks Chakma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
