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originally spoke a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Jingpo-Luish branch before adopting their current Indo-Aryan language. This historical language shift was aimed at consolidating intertribal power. Evidence of this transition is preserved in the Chakma lexicon, which contains abundant vocabulary items that belong neither to Indo-Aryan nor Tibeto-Burman linguistic groups, likely originating from their ancestral language.Despite its Indo-Aryan classification,

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