Chamorro
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Etymology
Origin of Chamorro
First recorded in 1945–50; from Spanish, from CHamoru Chamorri, the name of the highest, ruling caste of that people
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The indigenous people were long known as the Chamorro, a spelling imposed by the Spanish, but local legislation has recently favored the spelling “CHamoru.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Long Beach is home to a small population reporting Chamarro ancestry, while the biggest Chamorro community in the U.S. lives in San Diego County, where over 9,000 people reported Chamorro ancestry.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
Pineda got his second goal of the tournament and ninth in 58 international appearances, sending his kick to the left of goalkeeper Kevin Chamorro, who reacted the other way.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
When Guam capitulated two days later, the Japanese administered the island with the help of Chamorro translators from Saipan and a neighboring island called Rota.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
Page 231 It is interesting to note that in the Chamorro language of Guam the possessive suffixes for the first person correspond to those of the Igorot—my is ko and our is ta.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Jenks, Albert Ernest
During those 95 years of turbulent history, the paper — under the ownership of one of Latin America’s most distinguished journalistic families, the Chamorros — has consistently stood for democracy and press freedom.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2021
A 212-square mile island with 160,000 residents – just 37% of whom are native Chamorros - Guam is the westernmost point of the United States.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2020
Nearly four centuries after the arrival of the first Jesuit missionaries, Catholicism is deeply engrained in the culture of Guam’s indigenous people, known as Chamorros.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
Older Chamorros like de la Cruz balk at the idea the U.S. is anything but a loving, paternal benefactor.
From Time ● Aug. 16, 2017
Little groups of Chamorros who had managed to escape the Japanese began to come back in to Agana.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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