Chakma

The Chakma are a Ethnicity:

of the Bangladesh (area of the Chittagong Hill Leaflets), where they are a little more than 300.000 (2000);
of Burma (Chain of Arakan), where they are 20.000;
of the India (States of the Mizoram, of the Tripura, the Assam, the Arunachal Pradesh, the Western Bengal and the Manipur), where they are 300.000.

They name them-even Changma .

In Bangladesh, their number was estimated by the government at more than 350.000 in the years 1990. But this figure is regarded as largely lower than the real size of the population by Changma themselves, which propose according to their own estimates a full number of approximately 3.000.000 people in Bengladesh, in India and Burma. The undervaluation would make it possible the central government to follow a policy of colonization of the area.

At the end of the peace agreement of the December 2nd 1997 which put an end to more than 20 years of conflict between the populations autochtones of the area and the government bangladeshi, Chakma are represented with the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council in charge of the administration of the 3 districts constituting the area.

Language and culture

The social system of Chakma is original; indeed, they preserved the old classification in Gutthi, then in Goja. They live under the authority of a king.

The language chakma, the Changma kodha or changma vaj , belongs to the group says “Bengali-assamais” of the Indo-Aryan Langues. It is thus related with the Bengali and is for this reason a Indo-European language.

Chakma are Buddhist S.

See too

Internal bonds

Bor porong

External bonds

ethnologue.com: '' Bengali-Assamese ''

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