Anchwa

Anchwa

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.