Chamorro
Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language, spoken on the Mariana Islands
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Summary
Chamorro is a natural language[1]. Chamorro draws 2,604 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #111 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: United States[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Western Malayo-Polynesian[5]
- Writing system: Latin script[6]
- Commons category: Chamorro language[7]
- Wikimedia language code: ch[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Chamorro language[9]
- Described at URL: https://lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=18[10]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 64,300[11]
- Native label: Chamorro[12], Chamorru[13]
- Different from: Chamorro[14]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[15]
- Indigenous to: Guam[16], Northern Mariana Islands[17]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CHA[18]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[19]
- Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object[20], agglutinative language[21]
- Has grammatical gender: feminine[22], non-feminine[23]
Why It Matters
Chamorro has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Chamorro is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]