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<p>LANGUAGE: Chairwoman Hope Cristobal of I <span>Kumision
I Fino CHamoru yan I Fina'nå'guen I Historia yan I Lina'la' I Taotao
Tåno' speaks Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the Guam Legislature about the
commission's work. Listening to Cristobal is executive committee member
Jimmy S. Teria. David Castro/The Guam Daily Post</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr">I Kumision I Fino’ CHamoru
Yan I Fina’nå’guen I Historia Yan I Lina’la’ I Taotao Tåno, or the
Commission on CHamoru Language and the Teaching of the History and
Culture of the Indigenous People of Guam, has been consulting with
Northern Marianas leaders in the standardization of the CHamoru
language.</p><p dir="ltr">An informational briefing was convened by the
Legislature’s Committee on Culture and Justice on Wednesday at the Guam
Congress Building.</p><p dir="ltr">Vice Speaker Therese Terlaje said the
purpose of the briefing is to inform the public about the fiscal 2018
budget allocation of the commission; rules and conduct and
organizational structure; and updates on the orthographic rules of the
CHamoru language and dictionary.</p>
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</div><p dir="ltr">Terlaje
noted that the body was established by public law as the authority of
CHamoru language policy for Guam. “Their primary duty was to prescribe
the language in its written form in preparation for long-term
perpetuation,” she said during the briefing.</p><p>Another mandate is to
consult with government leaders and others in the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands who are interested in the standardization of
the CHamoru language orthography. Part of this partnership is to
recognize and establish agreement relevant to the orthography, as well
as existing regional differences.</p><p dir="ltr">Peter Onedera, a
commission member, said the commission has met with representatives
working on the dictionary in the CNMI and they have given the commission
a list of more than 100 words.</p><p dir="ltr"><strong>Representation</strong></p><p dir="ltr">The
members of the commission are Hope Cristobal, Jimmy Santos Teria, Rosa
Salas Palomo, Johnny Sablan, Robert Underwood, Laura Souder, Rufina
Mendiola, Teresita Flores, and Peter Onedera.</p><p dir="ltr">The commission members said they plan to invite GovGuam agencies to have representatives to the commission.</p><p dir="ltr">Palomo said this would enable the body to find out how to provide assistance to the GovGuam agencies. </p>
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</div><p dir="ltr">“The
most important criteria is that first, they have a basic interest in
doing this kind of work and, two, that they speak CHamoru,” Palomo said.</p><p dir="ltr">The
commission also was created to advise public and private institutions
and organizations on current orthographic rules established for the
CHamoru language.</p><p dir="ltr">Cristobal said the commission will
have a lexicon committee to update the current CHamoru dictionary, given
the introduction of new technology-related words.</p><p dir="ltr">“We
found ourselves discovering new words to begin with. We have formed a
lexicon committee to address, for example, adding new words. We found
out that other jurisdictions in Hawaiian people and the Alutiiq people
have put up a system analyzing how we would create these new words,
especially with our information technology today,” Cristobal said.</p><p dir="ltr">The commission also plans to release a children’s dictionary in CHamoru as part of its strategic plan for 2018.</p><p dir="ltr">The
commission also is mandated to assist the Bureau of Statistics and
Plans in doing a survey on the existing number of CHamoru speakers on
Guam.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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