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Chamorro ( English: / tʃəˈmɒroʊ /; [2] Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam) [3]) 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. [4] It is the native and spoken language of the Chamorro people, the indigenous people ...
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The Chamorro people ( / tʃɑːˈmɔːroʊ, tʃə -/; [5] [6] also...
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The Chamorro or CHamoru people are the indigenous people of...
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Chamorro (English: / tʃ ə ˈ m ɒr oʊ /; Chamorro: Finuʼ...
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Chamorro , Finoʼ CHamoru [3]) is a language spoken in Guam and the Mariana Islands by the Chamorro people. It has a lot of loanwords from the Spanish language. It is spoken by about 58,000 people.
Chamorro first started to appear in writing in 1668 when a missionary by the name of Father San Vitores devised a spelling system for the language using the Latin alphabet. There are currently two main orthographies for Chamorro: one in Guam and one in the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI). One difference is that in Guam initial digraphs are both ...
The Chamorro language is an Austronesian language that has, over time, come to incorporate many Spanish words. The word Chamorro is derived from Chamorri, or Chamoli, meaning “noble.”. English and Chamorro are the official languages; although Chamorro is still used in many homes, English is the…. Read More.
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