Chakma

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Data

Alternate Names Ajhā pāṭh, Ojhapath, Ojhopath, Aaojhapath
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

Overview

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.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
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