Language name: | CHAMORRO |
UPSID number: | 2416 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Austro-Tai, West Malayo-Polynesian |
This language has | 26 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.477315368 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | p b m t d n nj k g N ? f "s h l r.A j w i "e aa a_ "o u ts dz |
Comment: | Chamorro is spoken in Guam. |
Source(s): | Costenoble, H. 1935. Die Chamaro Sprache. M. Nijhoff, 'S-Gravenhage. Seiden, W. 1960. Chamorro phonemes. Anthropological Linguistics 2/4: 6-33. Topping, D.M. 1969. Spoken Chamorro. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. Topping, D.M. 1973. Chamorro Reference Grammar. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. |