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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

FAMILIA : INOS

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+Governor Eloy S. Inos The Inos family hails from Luta (Rota) And the interesting thing about the family is that, at one time, t...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

ENGLISH THE CHAMORRO WAY

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OD Å YE / OTD Å YE To order for someone We Chamorros borrow, but we usually change what we borrow! Take, for example, the idea...
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Monday, December 28, 2015

LOS GIGANTES

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Parade at the Guam Fair in Hag å t ñ a in 1932 History can be learned in many ways. Through documents. The physical remains that su...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

KÅNTA : KUTTURÅ-TA

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I really like this song. LYRICS 1. Famagu’on, atiende m å no ha’ eskuelan-miyo (Children, attend to whatever school you may be)...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

GÅTBON PÅTGON

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This Christmas carol is based on a carol found in a Baptist Hymnal probably in English, but which also appeared in German in a German h...
Friday, December 18, 2015

PÅTGON TAOTAO

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P ÅTGON TAOTAO (The person's child) I rarely hear the expression nowadays, but I used to hear it in the past.  Another Cha...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

YOU KNOW YOU'RE CHAMORRO WHEN...

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....an ear means 365 days. Many of our grandmas used to say, "Ears and ears ago, when I was in first grade......" WH...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

HÅFA "KAMALEN?"

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In Chamorro, we say kamalen .  The stress is on the first syllable. KA - ma - len. But the original Spanish word is  camar í n . The...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

LIYANG CHUGAI

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Turtles? These figures, almost certainly representing turtles ( haggan ), are found in a cave in Luta called Chugai. Getting to...
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Monday, November 23, 2015

PAIRE

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Here is yet another example of how languages, like so many things in life, are forever changing. In Saipan and, because of its influen...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

THE STOCKADE

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Chamorro women (perhaps from Saipan) washing laundry in the stockade ( MARC collection ) Much of Guam history after the war remains...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

FÅKKAI

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Languages change. And it doesn't always take outside forces to make a language change.  Many changes are from within. One exampl...
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