What if the chams from champa migrated to Luzon

What if the Chams fleeing the Viets could go to Luzon in Cagayan Valley and Pampanga River Floodplains instead of Sumatra forming the acehnese and hybridizing with the locals like the the Javanese did in OTL in a lesser extent.
 
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Funny, was reading Vietnamese history just yesterday.

From what I understand, if the Chams decide to flee instead of fight, that might create a massive vacuum.
If the viets can't send enough settlers, the Thai might come in and chase them away. Otherwise, the vacuum might mean the viets can push further south and challenge thai supremacy of the region earlier than OTL
 
From what I understand, if the Chams decide to flee instead of fight, that might create a massive vacuum.
OP is asking "What if the Chams who went to Sumatra went to Luzon?" and not "What if more Chams fled?"

Anyways I would like to ask why Luzon would attract the Chams in the first place.
 
Funny, was reading Vietnamese history just yesterday.

From what I understand, if the Chams decide to flee instead of fight, that might create a massive vacuum.
If the viets can't send enough settlers, the Thai might come in and chase them away. Otherwise, the vacuum might mean the viets can push further south and challenge thai supremacy of the region earlier than OTL

They had migrated to sumatra and cambodia in OTL
 
Well, here's one of my ideas:
Rebellious Cham political leaders and their followers were sentenced of permanent banishment instead of execution: their destination, as they found out,was in a region composed of OTL Metro Manila, Bulacan and Cavite. There, like the earlier Cham settlers who were mostly tradersm they intermarried with the locals and raised families. The most curious aspect of this migration was their language was influenced by Austronesian focus and other linguistic features common to most Philippine languages. Besides, the Philippine Chams, as now they were called, settled in OTL eastern Iloilo, Guimaras and central to south Negros Occidental, influencing both the political and economic landscape of pre-Hispanic Visayas.
 
Well, here's one of my ideas:
Rebellious Cham political leaders and their followers were sentenced of permanent banishment instead of execution: their destination, as they found out,was in a region composed of OTL Metro Manila, Bulacan and Cavite. There, like the earlier Cham settlers who were mostly tradersm they intermarried with the locals and raised families. The most curious aspect of this migration was their language was influenced by Austronesian focus and other linguistic features common to most Philippine languages. Besides, the Philippine Chams, as now they were called, settled in OTL eastern Iloilo, Guimaras and central to south Negros Occidental, influencing both the political and economic landscape of pre-Hispanic Visayas.

The Chams would not settle in Visayas but either in Luzon(in Cagayan Valley or Pampanga Watershed) or in Sulu, there were Cham migrants to Sulu in OTL, the Orang Dampuan.
 
It's not the Cham themselves but their descendants, and much of Bulacan itself is part of Pampanga watershed.

Actually if the Chams migrated to Luzon, the Alternate equivalent of Ibanag and Kapampangan would have more Chamic influence than Javanese(since the OTL Javanese influence is quite small in OTL), since the Chams would get assimilated and it might mean a higher population for Luzon in the future, a more Javanese and Malay migration might balance that out.
 
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