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Chamorro leid

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Chamorro
Fino' Chamoru
Native taeThe Marianas
EthnicityChamorro fowk
Native speakers
(95,000 citit 1990–2010)[1]
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
 Guam
 Northren Mariana Islands
Leid codes
ISO 639-1ch
ISO 639-2cha
ISO 639-3cha
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Chamorro (Chamorro: Fino'chamoru or simply Chamoru) is a Malayo-Polynesian leid (Austronesian), wi much Spaingie influence, spoken bi aboot 47,000 fowk (aboot 35,000 fowk on Guam an aboot 12,000 in the Northren Mariana Islands).[2]

References

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  1. Chamorro at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. Chung, Sandra. 1998. The design of agreement: Evidence from Chamorro. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.