Chamorro (English: /tʃəˈmɔːr(ˌ)oʊ/; Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering...
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The Chamorro people (/tʃɑːˈmɔːroʊ, tʃə-/; also CHamoru) are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States...
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Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific Chamorro language, an Austronesian language indigenous to The Marianas Chamorro Time Zone, the time zone of Guam and...
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indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...
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Ch (digraph) (category Articles containing Catalan-language text)
taclus 'tidy'. Ch is the fifth letter of the Chamorro language and its sound is [ts]. The Chamorro Language has three different dialects - the Guamanian...
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Micronesians (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
classified as Micronesian include the Carolinians (Northern Mariana Islands), Chamorros (Guam & Northern Mariana Islands), Chuukese, Mortlockese, Namonuito, Paafang...
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Å (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
several languages. It is a separate letter in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Low Saxon, Transylvanian Saxon, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule...
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Hagåtña, Guam (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
glottal stop instead of a syllable-final "t") means "blood" in the Chamorro language. The suffix "-ña" can be translated as either the possessive pronouns...
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Guam (redirect from Languages of Guam)
But unlike most of its neighbors, the Chamorro language is not classified as a Micronesian or Polynesian language. Rather, like Palauan, it possibly constitutes...
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Sardinian language in Italy, the Ryukyuan and Ainu languages in Japan, and the Chamorro language in Guam. This is also the most common cause of language endangerment...
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stone, or simply latte (also latde, latti, or latdi), is a pillar (Chamorro language: haligi) capped by a hemispherical stone capital (tasa) with the flat...
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Typhoons in the Philippines (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
Puyuma variw, Bintulu bauy ('wind'), Kelabit bariw ('storm wind'), and Chamorro pakyo ('typhoon'). The Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Honolulu started...
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Demographics of Guam (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
parishes. English 43.6% Filipino 21.2% Chamorro 17.8% Other Pacific island languages 10% Other Asian languages 6.3% Other 1.1% Guam is known to be the...
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Spanish–Chamorro Wars, also known as the Chamorro Wars and the Spanish–Chamorro War, refer to the late seventeenth century unrest among the Chamorros of the...
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CH (section In language)
considered a single letter in several Latin-alphabet languages Chamorro language: ISO 639 alpha-2 language code (ch) The methylidyne radical (a carbyne); CH•...
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Fusion cuisine (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
Fusion cuisine is a cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries, regions, or cultures. Cuisines...
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Friday (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
and the Chamorro betnes. This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh language as Gwener. An exception is Portuguese, also a Romance language, which uses...
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Bonsai (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
twenty-eight languages available in over one-hundred-and-ten countries and territories. A few dozen magazines in over thirteen languages are in print...
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Prince (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
the following traditions (some languages followed a historical link, e.g. within the Holy Roman Empire, not their language family; some even fail to follow...
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Northern Mariana Islands (redirect from Languages of the Northern Mariana Islands)
Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; Chamorro: Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; Carolinian: Commonwealth Téél Falúw...
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Glottal stop (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely...
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Micronesia (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Salamanca, Rafael (2009). Del español al chamorro: Lenguas en contacto en el Pacífico [From Spanish to Chamorro: languages in contact in the Pacific] (in Spanish)...
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1,000 languages, several have national/official language status, e.g. Tongan, Samoan, Māori, Gilbertese, Fijian, Hawaiian, Palauan, and Chamorro. The term...
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Mariana Islands (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
The Mariana Islands (/ˌmæriˈɑːnə/ MARR-ee-AH-nə; Chamorro: Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the...
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Dededo (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
Dededo (Chamorro: Dedidu; formerly in Spanish: [deðeðo]) is the most populated village in the United States territory of Guam. According to the U.S. Census...
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Stand Ye Guamanians (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
school. See Chamorro language § Phonology and Chamorro language § Orthography. CHamoru is often written in the pre-1993 orthography's Chamorro, and i has...
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(K-12) Chief Gadao Academy of Arts, Science and Chamorro Culture (PK-12) Sagan Fina' na' guen Fino' Chamorro Japanese School of Guam (Guam Nihonjin gakko...
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Carolinian language continuum. The evolution of the Carolinian language continued as the Carolinian people migrated to Saipan under Chamorro occupation...
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Kilawin (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
Filipino dish that consists of boiled and grilled pork parts Kelaguen – Chamorro dish of meat and green onions in an acidic marinade Kinilaw – Filipino...
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Chicharrón (category Articles containing Chamorro-language text)
Portuguese: torresmo [tuˈʁeʒmu, toˈʁezmu, toˈʁeʒmu]; Tagalog: chicharon; Chamorro: chachalon) is a dish generally consisting of fried pork belly or fried...
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