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Name: Chamorro
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Tjamoro; Sprache der Marianen
Spoken in: Northern Mariana Islands, Guam
Number of speakers: 62,500 in Guam (Bender and Rehg 1991). Population total all countries: 92,700 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 62500 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 76705 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: cha
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Austronesian
Parent Subgroup: Chamorro (chrr)
Child Dialects: Rotanese Chamorro (cha-rot) Chamorro (cha-cha)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Vulnerable
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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