Chams

Name: Chams: census figures, languages and lineage
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Чамы · Q383256

language area per Glottologcensus counts

178,948

Vietnam, census 2019 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)

Austronesian

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Vietnam: 178,948 people in the 2019 census.

Main language: Chamic. Glottolog classifies it in the Austronesian family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Vietnam2019 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Cham» · [1]

178,948

Languages and their lineage

Chamic

Austronesianaust1307
Malayo-Polynesianmala1545
Malayo-Chamicmala1554
Aceh-Chamiccham1327
Chamiccham1330

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Javanese Sundanese Tagalog (Filipinos)Malays Banjar Betawi people Minangkabau Chamorro people Samoans Carolinian people

Sources

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Viet Nam, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)