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  1. 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]

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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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  5. Feb 13, 2020 · Map. A decade ago, the US census estimated there were about 25,827 CHamoru speakers on Guam, just 2,394 of whom were under the age of 18, and only 14,176 CHamoru speakers in the rest of the island ...

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