Chamorro language

Chamorro
Native to	Mariana Islands
Ethnicity	Chamorro
Native speakers	58,000 (2005–2015)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Chamorro
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 (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.

1. ↑ Chamorro at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
2. ↑ "Chamorro". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 25 July 2020.
3. ↑ "Chamorro Orthography Rules". Guampedia. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.