It has nearly 1 million speakers, with 60% residing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts(CHT) and 35% spread across Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram and Tripura.

Historically, a Mongoloid group that settled in the Himalayan foothills spoke a Tibetan-related language but gradually incorporated Aryan vocabulary.

This suggests that early Chakma may have belonged to an isolated or lesser-documented linguistic lineage before later influences shaped its development.

Historical migration patterns indicate that the Chakma people likely moved from Magadha (modern Bihar, India) to Arakan (Rakhine State, Myanmar) before settling in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

At the same time, interactions with Burmese and Arakanese speakers introduced phonetic and structural adaptations, though the core vocabulary remained distinct.

[12] Chakma is a tonal language, it has contrastive tones; differences in the pitch of the speaker's voice can distinguish words.

Saenwtte aamaar baekkunelei dol sittawloi songporona usit.All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.The Chakma language is being taught in many government and private schools in India (Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh) and Bangladesh.