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The Chamorro people (/ tʃ ɑː ˈ m ɔːr oʊ, tʃ ə-/; also CHamoru) are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States territory of Guam and the encompassing Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia, a commonwealth of the US.
May 17, 2024 · Chamorro, indigenous people of Guam. The ancestors of the Chamorro are thought to have come to the Mariana Islands from insular Southeast Asia (Indonesia and the Philippines) about 1600 BCE. The disease and violence wrought by the Spanish reduced the Chamorro population to about 1,000 by 1820.
Chamorro (English: / tʃ ə ˈ m ɒr oʊ /; Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about 32,200 in the Northern Mariana Islands and elsewhere.
Chamorro is Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 64,000 people mainly in Guam, and also in the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI) and the USA. In 2015 there were about 30,300 of Chamorro in Guam, where it is a statutory national language.
Our website is an online platform to facilitate and advance the learning of CHamoru. We pool diverse resources for learning CHamoru, use them and share them among us. We support each other and together we improve our CHamoru language skills. We listen to each other and together learn about learning CHamoru.
This dictionary was designed and created for learners of the Chamorro language, and is currently the most extensive Chamorro dictionary on the Internet. This Chamorro online dictionary is continuously being modified and updated to make it a more accurate and useful resource.
The Mariana Islands appear to have been continuously occupied by people who shared the same culture and language that eventually became known as Chamorro. Guam’s history is also one of multi-colonialism, with the last 400 years of Guam’s history marked by administrations of three different colonial powers: Spain, the United States and Japan.
Chamorro ( English: / tʃəˈmɒroʊ /; [2] Chamorro: Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam) [3]) is a language spoken in Guam and the Mariana Islands by the Chamorro people. It has a lot of loanwords from the Spanish language. It is spoken by about 58,000 people.
The Chamorro are the indigenous inhabitants of the island of Guam and the surrounding Southern Mariana Islands. The present-day descendants of the precontact Chamorros have a syncretic culture, greatly influenced by Spanish, Filipino, Japanese, and especially American culture.
The Ancient Chamorro Period 1500 BC – 1521 AD. Saipan, Tinian, Rota, and Guam were first settled roughly 3,500 years ago by the seafaring ancestors of the modern Chamorro people who departed from points in Island Southeast Asia, making the Marianas the first island group in the Remote Pacific to be inhabited.
