Chakma people

The Chakma ( Bengali: চাকমা, cākmā ) are a comprehensive 700,000 people living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh and India.

The Chakma is a Tibeto - Burmese people. Their ancestors migrated from Magadha in the direction of present-day Bangladesh and originally formed a separate kingdom. Among the Chakma outweighs the Theravada Buddhism.

The Chakma spoke originally a Tibeto - Burmese language, but are due to the influence of surrounding Indo-Aryan languages ​​, they even changed to an Indo-Aryan language, the Chakma.