Language code: ch
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ch
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The table below provides technical details for the Chamorro language, designated by the ch code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Chamorro Native Chamoru |
| Family | Austronesian |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Guam (Guamanian)Northern Mariana Islands |
| Related languages | PalauanTagalogCebuano |
| Key facts | About 45% of its vocabulary comes from Spanish loanwordsIt uses the Latin script with distinctive letters like å and ñTypical word order is verb–subject–object or verb–object–subjectReduplication is employed to show intensity, plurality, or repetitionA standardized orthography was adopted in the 1980s to support language revitalization |
| Sample phrase | Håfa adai, håfa tatatmanu hao? |
| Character encodings | |
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Chamorro belongs to the Austronesian family of languages. It is officially used in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. It is estimated that there are more than 55,000 speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Chamorro speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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