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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
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| Chamorro | |
|---|---|
| Finuʼ Chamorro Finoʼ CHamoru | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈfinoʔ t͡sɑˈmoɾu] |
| Native to | Guam, Northern Mariana Islands |
| Region | Mariana Islands |
| Ethnicity | Chamorro |
Native speakers | 58,000 (2005–2015) |
Austronesian
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| Latin | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Guam  Northern Mariana Islands |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ch |
| ISO 639-2 | cha |
| ISO 639-3 | cha |
| Glottolog | cham1312 |
| ELP | Chamorro |
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 Chamorro is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Look up "Chamorro_language" on WikipediaWikipedia Categories
- Chamorro
- Chamorro language
- Languages of Guam
- Vulnerable languages
- Agglutinative languages
- Malayo-Polynesian languages
- Languages with ISO 639-1 code
- Languages with ISO 639-2 code
- Verb–subject–object languages
- Endangered languages of Oceania
- Languages of the Mariana Islands
- Endangered Austronesian languages
- Language articles citing Ethnologue 19
- Languages of the Northern Mariana Islands
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