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Chamorro (English: / tʃ ə ˈ m ɒr oʊ /; Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) 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.
El idioma chamorro ( autoglotónimo: chamoru) es la lengua hablada en la isla de Guam y en las islas Marianas del Norte donde comparte la oficialidad con el inglés. En algunos hogares en las Carolinas, sobre todo en Yap y Ponapé, también se sigue utilizando y está oficialmente reconocido.
17 de may. de 2024 · Chamorro, indigenous people of Guam. The ancestors of the Chamorro are thought to have come to the Mariana Islands from insular Southeast Asia (Indonesia and the Philippines) about 1600 BCE. The disease and violence wrought by the Spanish reduced the Chamorro population to about 1,000 by 1820.
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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).
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; place in. Austronesian languages
The Mariana Islands appear to have been continuously occupied by people who shared the same culture and language that eventually became known as Chamorro. Guam’s history is also one of multi-colonialism, with the last 400 years of Guam’s history marked by administrations of three different colonial powers: Spain, the United States and Japan.
15 de jun. de 2016 · To understand why the Chamorro language is endangered, it is essential to discuss the colonial history of Guam and its effect on the language. Guam has undergone four waves of colonization , the first in 1668 under the Spanish, whose primary mission was to convert the Chamorro people to Catholicism.
