This script was first recorded in Western history during the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Today, Chakma people are scattered throughout India and Bangladesh with some variation in script characters between the two countries.
Unicode Chart
Maps
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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
Data
Alternate Names | Ajhā pāṭh, Ojhapath, Ojhopath, Aaojhapath |
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ISO 15924 | Cakm 349 |
Type | Abugida |
Family | Indic |
Direction | LtR |
Diacritics | Yes |
Contextual Forms | Yo |
Capitals Used | No |
Glyphs | 80 |
Inventor | Unknown |
Earliest Location | India subcontinent |
Earliest Date | 1903 CE |
Latest Date | Present |
Ancestry |
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Overview
Bibliography
Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
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Brandt, Carmen | 2018 | Writing off domination: the Chakma and Meitei script movements, Vol 9, No. 1, p. 116-140 | South Asian History and Culture |
Everson, Michael and Hosken, Martin | 2009 | Proposal for encoding the Chakma script in the UCS | Unicode |
Everson, Michael and Hosken, Martin | 2009 | Proposal for encoding the Chakma script int he UCS | Unicode |
Scheuren, Zachary | 2019 | Proposal to encode CHAKMA LETTER VAA for Pali | Unicode |