Austronesian · ISO 639-3 cha · ch
Chamorro Language Chamoru
Chamorro is an Austronesian language spoken by about 64,300 people in 2 countries. It is an official language of Guam. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Chamorro is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Chamorro
Language family
- Austronesian
- Malayo-Polynesian
- Chamorro
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Chamorro language
Chamorro (Chamoru) is spoken by about 64,300 people, which makes it the 530th most spoken language in the world — just behind Faroese (69,150) and ahead of Komi-Permyak (64,000). It belongs to the Austronesian language family.
Where is Chamorro spoken?
Chamorro is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Guam (37,297) and Northern Mariana Islands (9,201).
Share of the population that speaks Chamorro: Guam 22% (37,297) and Northern Mariana Islands 18% (9,201).
Chamorro is an official language in 1 country: Guam.
Writing system and status
Chamorro is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as vulnerable, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Indonesian, Javanese, Caribbean Javanese, Malay, Filipino, Sundanese and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 ch, ISO 639-3 cha.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.