he Chams, or Cham people (Cham: Urang Campa,[5] Vietnamese: người Chăm or người Chàm, Khmer:ជនជាតិចាម), are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. They are concentrated between the Kampong Cham Province inCambodia and Phan Rang–Tháp Chàm, Phan Thiết, Ho Chi Minh City and An Giang Province in Central Vietnam. Approximately 4,000 Chams also live in Thailand; many of whom have moved south to the Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala, andSongkhla Provinces for work. Cham form the core of the Muslim communities in both Cambodia and Vietnam
he Chams are remnants of the Champa polities (seventh to 18th centuries). They are closely related to otherAustronesian peoples and speak Cham, a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Austronesian language family's Chamic subgroup. This is in contrast to most of the neighbouring peoples, who speak Austroasiatic languages
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