Chamorro

Also known as ch, Chamorro language

Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language, spoken on the Mariana Islands

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Chamorro is a language spoken by people on the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, and it belongs to the broader Austronesian language family that spans across Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. It matters because it represents the distinct cultural and linguistic identity of the Chamorro people and their island heritage.

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ABVD: Chamorro

A Database of Basic Austronesian Vocabulary

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Image: Dictionary and grammar of the Chamorro language of the island of Guam (IA aff7166.0001.001.umich.edu).pdf

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Commons category: Chamorro language
described at URL: lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=18
native label: Chamorru
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 64300
Wikimedia language code: ch
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CHA
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Chamorro is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about 32,200 in the Northern Mariana Islands and elsewhere.

It is the historic native language of the Chamorro people, who are indigenous to the Mariana Islands, although it is less commonly spoken today than in the past. Chamorro has three distinct dialects: Guamanian, Rotanese, and that in the other Northern Mariana Islands (NMI).