Chamorro | |
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Native to | Mariana Islands |
Ethnicity | Chamorro |
Native speakers | 58,000 (2005–2015)[1] |
Austronesian
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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 |
Chamorro (English: /tʃəˈmɒroʊ/;[2] Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)[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.
The Chamorro language has its own Wikipedia. The first edit was made there in 2004.