19 Facts About Cham people

Original Cham people are therefore the likely heirs of Austronesian navigators from Taiwan and Borneo, whose main activities are commerce, transport and perhaps piracy.

The Cham people were accomplished Austronesian seafarers, that from centuries populated and soon dominated maritime Southeast Asia.

Cham folklore includes a creation myth in which the founder of the Cham people was a certain Lady Po Nagar.

Cham people eventually returned to Champa "did many good deeds in helping the sick and the poor" and "a temple was erected in her honor".

Cham people's father is Maulana Malik Ibrahim known as Ibrahim as-Samarkandy, and his mother is Dewi Candrawulan, a princess of Champa who's the sister of Queen Dwarawati.

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Cham people came to Java in 1443 CE, in order to visit his aunt Queen Dwarawati, a princess of Champa who married to Kertawijaya, the King of Majapahit Empire.

The king and his Cham people who took refuge in Cambodia were scattered in communities across the Mekong Basin.

Cham people community suffered a major blow during the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by Democratic Kampuchea.

Cham people represent the core of the Muslim communities in both Cambodia and Vietnam.

Many of these Cham people refugees chose to settle in Malaysia, as they preferred to live in an Islamic country and had family ties in the Malaysian states of Kelantan and Terengganu.

The blend of indigenous and foreign elements in Cham people culture is a result of ecological, social, and historical conditions.

The influences of various Indian cultures produced similarities among many groups in Southeast Asia such as the Cham people, who traded or communicated with polities on the Indian subcontinent.

Cham people shielded and always observed their girls attentively, placing great importance on their virginity.

However, the Cham people all have a very rich tradition of dance, arts, music, costumes, poetry, and more.

Cham people is very rich with many loan words and terminology influenced by many other languages it came into contact with.

Cham people is written in Eastern Cham people script in Central Vietnam while the language is predominantly written in Jawi Arabic script around the Mekong Delta.

Western Cham people script, used in Cambodia, is different enough from Eastern Cham people's to be under review by the Unicode Consortium for inclusion as its own block — as of 2022, the character set is still being revised.

The Hinduism practiced by these Cham people has many elements of indigenous beliefs like the inclusion of Po Inu Nagar, a mother goddess figure.

Nowadays, Cham people cuisine is classified as one of the ethnic cuisines of Cambodia, Vietnam and Hainan.