The Official Chamorro English Dictionary

Download or read book Chamorro-English Dictionary written by Donald M. Topping and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1980-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chamorro-English Dictionary provides an alphabetical listing of as many Chamorro words as could be collected, spelled according to the principles adopted by the Marianas Orthography Committee in February 1971. Each word is given a fairly comprehensive definition in English, and, in many cases, sample sentences have been included to illustrate usages in context. Cross-references are provided among Chamorro words that are semantically related. An English-Chamorro finder list, based on selected words in the English definitions, is also provided.