Language code: `ch`

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ch

The table below provides technical details for the Chamorro language, designated by the ch code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code	`ch`
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	UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32
Supported in Localizely

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

Speakers

Guam

30K

Northern Mariana Islands

13K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Chamorro speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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