Editing Cham script (section)

==History==
The Cham script is a descendant of the [[Brahmi script]] of India.<ref name="Uni11">Cham. In ''The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0'' (p. 661). Mountain View, CA: Unicode Consortium.</ref> Cham was one of the first scripts to develop from the [[Pallava script]], this happened in the mid 350s CE. It came to Southeast Asia as part of the expansion of [[Hinduism]] and [[Buddhism]]. Hindu stone temples of the [[Champa]] civilization contain both [[Sanskrit]] and Chamic language stone inscriptions.<ref name="book2">Thurgood, Graham. ''From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change''. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999.</ref> The earliest inscriptions in Vietnam are found in [[Mỹ Sơn]], a temple complex dating from {{Circa|300}} CE to {{Circa|1200}} CE.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Centre |first=UNESCO World Heritage |title=My Son Sanctuary |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/949/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Graham |first=Thurgood |url=https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguistics%20pack/Austronesia/Cham%2C%20A%20Preliminary%20Sketch%20of%20Phan%20Rang%20%28Thurgood%29.pdf |title=A Preliminary Sketch of Phan Rang Cham The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar |date=11 September 2024 |publisher=[[California State University, Chico]] |pages=Page=1 |language=En}}</ref> The oldest inscription is written in faulty Sanskrit. After this, inscriptions alternate between Sanskrit and the Cham language of the times.<ref name="book3">Claude, Jacques. "The Use of Sanskrit in the Khmer and Cham Inscriptions." In Sanskrit Outside India (Vol. 7, pp. 5-12).  Leiden: Panels of the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference. 1991.</ref>

Cham kings studied classical Indian texts, such as the ''[[Dharmaśāstra]]'', and inscriptions make reference to [[Sanskrit literature]]. Eventually, while the Cham and Sanskrit languages influenced one another, Cham culture assimilated Hinduism, and Chams were eventually able to adequately express the Hindu religion in their own language.<ref name="book3" /> By the 8th century, the Cham script had outgrown Sanskrit and the Cham language was in full use.<ref name="book1" /> Most preserved manuscripts focus on religious rituals, epic battles and poems, and myths.<ref name="book3" />

Modern Chamic languages have the Southeast Asian [[language area|areal features]] of [[monosyllabic]]ity, [[tone (linguistics)|tonality]], and [[glottalization|glottalized consonants]]. However, they had reached the Southeast Asia mainland disyllabic and non-tonal. The script needed to be altered to meet these changes.<ref name="book2" />