Chakma 
The Chakma language (Changma Vaj / Changma Kodha) is an
Eastern Indo-Aryan language closely related to Bengali and
spoken by about 600,000 people in parts of Bangladesh and India.
About half the Chakma speakers live near Chittagong in southeast
Bangladesh, while the rest can be found in the states of Mizoram,
Assam, and Tripura in northeast India.
Chakma is written with an alphabet known as Chakma, Ajhā
pāṭh or Ojhopath. It developed from the Brahmi
script of ancient India.
Notable features
- Type of writing system: syllabic alphabet / abugida
- Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
- Used to write: Chakma (Changma Vaj / Changma Kodha)
Vowels and vowel diacritics
Consonants
Numerals
Sample texts in Chakma
A Bengali version of this text
Translation
These are our words, shaped
By our hands, our tools,
Our history. Lose them,
And we lose ourselves.
Article 1 of UDHR in the Chakma alphabet
Article 1 of UDHR in the Bengali alphabet
Transliteration
Beg manussun sadingori ekkei morjada ar odhikar lone loi jonmo on. Tarar bibek buddi bekkani age. Senotte bekkunelei dol sittoloi songoporana usit.
UDHR translation provided by Abu Saleh Mohammad Sultan
Translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another
in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Links
Information about the Chakma language and alphabet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakma_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakma_script
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3428.pdf
Learn Chakma script
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zUBFy43n6w
Online virtual Chakma keyboard
http://uni.hilledu.com/ribeng.html
Chakma fonts
http://hilledu.com/?page_id=1954
http://www.omniglot.com/fonts/chakma.zip
Indo-Aryan languages
Awadhi,
Assamese,
Bengali,
Bhojpuri,
Chakma,
Dhivehi,
Domari,
Fiji Hindi,
Garhwali,
Gujarati,
Hajong,
Hindi,
Kashmiri,
Konkani,
Kotia,
Kutchi,
Magahi,
Maithili,
Marathi,
Marwari,
Modi,
Nepali,
Odia,
Palula,
Punjabi,
Rajasthani,
Rohingya,
Romani,
Saraiki,
Sarnámi Hindustani,
Sindhi,
Sinhala,
Shina,
Sourashtra,
Sugali,
Sylheti,
Torwali,
Urdu
- Ahom,
- Badaga,
- Balinese,
- Batak,
- Baybayin (Tagalog),
- Bengali,
- Bilang-bilang,
- Bima,
- Blackfoot,
- Brahmi,
- Buhid,
- Burmese,
- Carrier,
- Chakma,
- Cham,
- Cree,
- Dehong Dai,
- Devanagari,
- Ditema,
- Dives Akuru,
- Ethiopic,
- Evēla Akuru,
- Fraser,
- Gondi,
- Grantha,
- Gujarati,
- Gupta,
- Gurmukhi,
- Hanifi,
- Hanuno'o,
- Inuktitut,
- Javanese,
- Jenticha,
- Kaithi,
- Kannada,
- Kawi,
- Kerinci,
- Kharosthi,
- Khmer,
- Khojki,
- Kulitan,
- Lampung,
- Lanna,
- Lao,
- Lepcha,
- Limbu,
- Lontara/Makasar,
- Lota Ende,
- Malayalam,
- Manpuri,
- Meroïtic,
- Modi,
- Mon,
- Mongolian Horizontal Square Script,
- Ojibwe,
- Odia,
- Pahawh Hmong,
- Pallava,
- Phags-pa,
- Ranjana,
- Redjang,
- Sasak,
- Satera Jontal,
- Shan,
- Sharda,
- Siddham,
- Sindhi,
- Sinhala,
- Sorang Sompeng,
- Sourashtra,
- Soyombo,
- Sundanese,
- Syloti Nagri,
- Tagbanwa,
- Takri,
- Tamil,
- Thaana,
- Telugu,
- Thai,
- Tibetan,
- Tigalari (Tulu),
- Tikamuli,
- Tocharian,
- Tolong Siki,
- Varang Kshiti
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