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Commission urges updated Chamorro orthography, warns PUDs may complicate place-name restoration
Summary
Dr. Robert Underwood of the place-names commission briefed mayors on a project to research and restore indigenous Chamorro place names and align spellings with current orthography; he cautioned planned-unit developments and external map databases can complicate renaming efforts.
Dr. Robert Underwood, representing the Commission I Fino’na’fåna’ (place-names commission), told the Mayor’s Council of Guam on May 10 that the commission is studying traditional Chamorro place names with a goal of restoring authentic pronunciations and spellings under current Chamorro orthography.
“our main mission is to honor our ancestors by aligning place names with, updated tomorrow orthography, researching the meaning of indigenous place names, and understanding the history of place,” Dr. Underwood said, describing the commission’s legal responsibilities to…
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