ISO 639-3 · chacha
Austronesian family
Chamorro
Chamorro is a language of the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch (Austronesian), spoken in United States. Wikidata counts about 64,300 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language, spoken on the Mariana Islands”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
cha- ISO 639-1
ch- Glottocode
cham1312- Family
- Austronesian
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- 16.70, 145.78
- Wikipedia
- 77 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
3levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Chamorro |
|---|---|
| Also called | ch, Chamorro language |
| All speakers | 64,300 |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Official in | United States |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Austronesian to Chamorro
The branches above Chamorro, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in United States
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