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Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar and Bangladesh
This article is about the Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar and Bangladesh. For the Algonquian language of the US and Mexico sometimes called Sac or Sauk, see Fox language.
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Cak is spoken in Bangladesh by about 3,000 people and in Rakhine State, Burma by about 1,000 people according to Ethnologue. In Bangladesh, Cak is spoken in Baishari, Naikhyongchari, and Dochari (Huziwara 2018). In Rakhine State, Burma, Sak is spoken in Maungdaw, Buthidaung, Rathedaung, and Mrauk U townships (Huziwara 2018). The Baishari dialect is the most conservative one (Huziwara 2018).
According to Ethnologue, in Bangladesh, Chak is spoken in 14 villages in:
only occurs in minor syllables or as a result of vowel reduction of /a/.
Numerals
Sak uses a decimal-based numeral system. Sak uses two sets of numerals: an indigenous system, and another system borrowed from Arakanese, often used for numbers beyond ten.
Further reading
Benedict, Paul K. (1939). "Semantic Differentiation in Indo-Chinese". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 4 (3/4): 213–229. doi:10.2307/2717775. JSTOR2717775.
Van Driem, George (1993). "The Proto-Tibeto-Burman verbal agreement system". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 56 (2): 292–334. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00005528. S2CID162552967.
Glottolog 2.7 - Sak. (n.d.). Retrieved February 12, 2016
Huziwara, Keisuke. 2010. “Cak prefixes.” In Dai Zhongming and James A. Matisoff, eds., Zang-Mian-yu yanjiu sishi nian , pp. 130–45. Harbin: Heilongjiang University Press.
Shafer, Robert (1940). "The Vocalism of Sino-Tibetan". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 60 (3): 302–337. doi:10.2307/594419. JSTOR594419.
Thurgood, G., & LaPolla, R. J. (2003). The Sino-Tibetan languages.
Voegelin, C. F., & Voegelin, F. M. (1965). Languages of the world: Sino-Tibetan fascicle five. Anthropological Linguistics,7(6), 1-58. Retrieved February 12, 2016 JSTOR30022507
Huziwara, Keisuke (2018). Varieties of Cak dialects. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, held May 17-19, 2018 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Huziwara, Keisuke (2019). A sketch of Cak grammar. Kyoto: The Hakubi Project of Kyoto University.
Languages of Bangladesh