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Languages of Guam

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Guam. 169,000. National or official languages: Chamorro, English. USA territory. Geographically southernmost of the Mariana Islands. Literacy rate: 96%. Immigrant languages: Chuukese, Japanese (2,500), Korean (4,000), Palauan, Pingelapese, Tagalog (24,000). Also includes Chinese (2,000), languages of the Philippines (30,000). Information mainly from B. Bender 1971, Bender and Capelle 1996; J. Ellis 1991; K. Rehg 1991, 1996. The number of individual languages listed for Guam is 2. Of those, both are living languages.

Chamorro	[cha] 62,500 in Guam (Bender and Rehg 1991). Population total all countries: 92,700. Also in Northern Mariana Islands, United States. Alternate names: Tjamoro.  Dialects: Chamorro, Rotanese Chamorro.  Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Chamorro  More information.
English	[eng] 58,000 in Guam (D. Crystal 2005).  Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English  More information.