Håfa adai!
say it: “HAH-fah dai”
Chamorro
in its own words: Chamoru
- Speakers
- 60 thousand (estimate)
- Family
- Austronesian
- Vitality
- Definitely endangered
- Where it is spoken
- Guam, Northern Mariana Islands
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Guam
Fun fact
Chamorro is the Austronesian language of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, with a large share of Spanish vocabulary, including numerals. The Mariana Trench lies nearby.