• The original Chamorros spoke an Austronesian language that was an immediate descendant of Malayo-Polynesian or Extra-Formosan, the language that developed in the northern Philippines following the first migration out of Taiwan into the Philippines. • The earliest Chamorros sailed the 1,300 miles from the northern Philippines to the Marianas in the first major, open-sea migration in the history of mankind.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:33:20 +0000