Sak (also known as Cak, Chak, or Tsak) is a

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of the Sal branch spoken in

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and

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Geographical distribution

Cak is spoken in Bangladesh by about 3,000 people and in Rakhine State, Burma by about 1,000 people according to ''Ethnologue''. In Bangladesh, Cak is spoken in Baishari, Naikhyongchari, and Dochari (Huziwara 2018). In Rakhine State, Burma, Sak is spoken in

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, Rathedaung, and

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townships (Huziwara 2018). The Baishari dialect is the most conservative one (Huziwara 2018). According to ''Ethnologue'', in Bangladesh, Chak is spoken in 14 villages in: *

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: Baishari, Bandarban, Bishar Chokpra *Southern Naikhongchari area in the Arakan Blue Mountains

Phonology

Consonants

* Sounds /tsʰ, kʰ, w/ mainly occur from loanwords. */ts, tsʰ, dz/ is also heard as ʃ, tʃʰ, dʒamong other dialects. * �occurs as a realization of the consonant sequence /ŋj/.

Vowels

* �only occurs in minor syllables or as a result of vowel reduction of /a/.

* * *Glottolog 2.7 - Sak. (n.d.). Retrieved February 12, 201

* *Huziwara, Keisuke. 2002. “Chakku-go no onsei ni kansuru koosatu” phonetic analysis of Cak Kyoto University Linguistic Research yooto Daigaku Gengogaku Kenkyuu21:217–73. *Huziwara, Keisuke. 2008. Chakku-go no kizyutu gengogakuteki kenkyuu descriptive linguistic study of the Cak language Doctoral dissertation, Kyoto University. lix + 942 pp. * *Huziwara, Keisuke. 2010. “Cak prefixes.” In Dai Zhongming and James A. Matisoff, eds., Zang-Mian-yu yanjiu sishi nian orty Years of Sino-Tibetan Studies pp. 130–45. Harbin: Heilongjiang University Press. * *Thurgood, G., & LaPolla, R. J. (2003). ''The Sino-Tibetan languages''. *Voegelin, C. F., & Voegelin, F. M. (1965). Languages of the world: Sino-Tibetan fascicle five. ''Anthropological Linguistics,'' ''7''(6), 1-58. Retrieved February 12, 2016

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