Chakma language (
Changma Vaj or
Changma Kodha) is an
Indo-European language spoken by the
Chakma and
Daingnet people. Its better-known closest relatives are
Bengali,
Assamese,
Chittagonian/
Rohingya,
Bishnupriya Manipuri,
Tanchangya, and
Sylheti. It is spoken by nearly 310,000 people in southeast Bangladesh near
Chittagong City, and another 300,000 in
India in
Mizoram,
Assam, and
Tripura. It is written using the
Chakma script, which is also called
Ajhā pāṭh, sometimes romanized
Ojhopath. Literacy in Chakma script is low.