Anchwa

Anchwa

Anchwa
Flag of the Anchwanese Republic
Pronunciation	[anʧwa]
Created by	camrionr_
Date	2023
Setting	Alternate Version of Earth
Native to	Anchwan Nation (Thailand, Cambodia and most of the Malay peninsula)
Ethnicity	Thai people
Native speakers	Around 100 million (2024)
Language family	Austro-Asiatic Mon-Khmer Anchwa
Early forms	Proto-Austro-Asiatic Proto-Mon-Khmer Old Anchwa
Standard form	Central Anchwa
Dialects	Northern Anchwa Eastern Anchwa Western Anchwa Malay Anchwa (outdated) Southern Anchwa Southwestern Anchwa Cambodian Anchwa
Writing systems
Official status
Official language in	Republic of Anchwa
Recognised minority language in	Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar
Regulated by	Department of Anchwanese Language
Language codes
CLCR	NCW
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IETF	IETF (BCP 47) code for the language
BRCL	Brightraven Registry of Constructed Languages code for the language
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Overview

Anchwa is a language spoken in Southeast Asia and West Indochina. It is recognized as the National Language of the Republic of Anchwa. It has two forms, Old Anchwa (or Anchwa rae mai),and modern Anchwa (Anchwa khô mai)It is a historically tonal language that has since lost its tones. Some dialects in the north and east may still remain tonal. Anchwa has a surprisingly high amount of loans from Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic. Less surprisingly, it has loans from Vietnamese, Khmer and Thai. Malay and Indonesian words have trickled in, but mostly have stayed away from the northern dialects. Malay and Indonesian loans make up about 7% of the Central dialect's words, however, in the Peninsula's dialect, they make up almost 30 percent of the whole vocabulary.