Do Guamanians Speak Spanish?

Although English is spoken throughout the island, the local people continue to speak their own Chamorro language

. Some, particularly older residents who lived on Guam during the World War II period of Japanese occupation, speak Japanese, as well.

Is Chamorro Spanish?

The Chamorros are primarily Austronesian, but many also have European (such as Spanish) and Southeast Asian ancestry. Native Guamanians, ethnically called Chamorros, descend primarily from Austronesian peoples and may also have other ancestries, such as Spanish, Filipino, and Japanese.

Why does Chamorro sound like Spanish?

There was wholesale borrowing of Spanish words and phrases into Chamorro, and there was even some borrowing from the Spanish sound system. ... In virtually all cases of borrowing, Spanish words were forced to conform to the Chamorro sound system....