Editing Cham script (section)

{{Short description|Abugida writing system}}
{{Infobox Writing system
| name        = Cham script
| altname     = Akhara Cam<br>{{script|Cham|ꨀꨇꩉ ꨌꩌ}}
| sample      = File:Akhara Cham.png
| imagesize   = 250px
| type        = [[Abugida]]
| time        = {{circa|350}} CE – present{{sfn|Marrison|1975|pp=52-59}}
| fam1        = [[Proto-Sinaitic script]]
| footnotes   = 
| fam2        = [[Phoenician alphabet]]
| fam3        = [[Aramaic alphabet]]
| fam4        = [[Brahmi script]]
| fam5        = [[Tamil-Brahmi]]
| fam6        = [[Pallava script]]<ref>Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography, R. Malatesha Joshi, Catherine McBride(2019),p.29</ref>
| sisters     = [[Khmer script|Khmer]], [[Kawi script|Kawi]], [[Old Mon script|Old Mon]], [[Grantha script|Grantha]], [[Tamil script|Tamil]]
| languages   = [[Cham language|Cham]], [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]
| unicode     = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UAA00.pdf U+AA00&ndash;U+AA5F]
| iso15924    = Cham
}}
{{Contains special characters
| special  = uncommon [[Unicode]] characters
| fix      = Help:Multilingual support#Cham
| image    = Replacement character.svg
| link     = Specials (Unicode block)#Replacement character
| alt      = <?>
| compact  = yes
}}
{{brahmic}}
[[File:National Museum of Vietnamese History42.JPG|thumb|Closeup of the inscription on the Po Nagar stele, 965. The stele describes feats by the Champa kings.]]
[[File:Muzium Negara KL40.JPG|thumb|A Champa manuscript recounting the social culture of the Cham community of the early 18th century]]

The '''Cham script''' ([[Cham language|Cham]]: {{script|Cham|ꨀꨇꩉ ꨌꩌ}}) is a [[Brahmic scripts|Brahmic]] [[abugida]] used to write [[Cham language|Cham]], an [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian language]] spoken by some 245,000 [[Chams]] in [[Vietnam]] and [[Cambodia]].<ref name="Uni11" /> It is written horizontally left to right, just like other Brahmic abugidas.