Chamorro language

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)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Chamorro
Writing system	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
Chamorro is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
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Chamorro (English: /tʃəˈmɔːroʊ/, chə-MOR-oh;^[2] endonym: Finuʼ Chamorro [Northern Mariana Islands] or Finoʼ Chamoru [Guam] /ˈfinoʔ t͡sɑˈmoɾu/)^[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 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).