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Chamorro

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Also known as ch, Chamorro language

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

AI overview

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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Encyclopedic overview

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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chamorro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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