Austronesian family
Chamorro
c. 1000 CE – today Living
Chamorro (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Austronesian language. Lineage: Proto-Austronesian → Proto-Malayo-Polynesian → Chamorro.
See Chamorro on the interactive map- Speakers
- 58K (58,000)
- ISO 639-3
- cha
- Glottocode
- cham1312
Spoken in the Mariana Islands, settled ~1500 BCE; not part of Oceanic. Heavy Spanish lexical influence. Start date is nominal.
Lineage
- Proto-Austronesianc. 3,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
- Chamorroc. 1000 CE – today
Sister languages 9
Also descended from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.