Chamorro Public Service Post - I Love You
When I first started voyaging out into the internet full force several years ago, meaning I started using Google and Yahoo to search for random crap, interesting things would always pop up when I was looking for stuff related to Guam and Chamorros.
For instance, if you do just general Guam searches you will find a surprisingly alot of Gay community website. I never imagined Guam as some gay oasis in the Pacific, but apparently around the Pacific alot of people do think of Guam as just that.
Also, if you do just general searches for Chamorro, you will receive a bunch of sites for Chamorros in Nicaragua. These aren't ethnic Chamorros but people with the last name Chamorro, such as Edgar Chamorro, a contra fighter and former ambassador to the United Nations, or Violeta Chamorro, a President of Nicaragua in the 1990's.
When I would do searches for Chamorro language however, a certain type of page would constantly show up, "I Love You Pages." I'm sure that most of us have stumbled across these pages, they basically feature how to say "I Love You" in all the known languages in the universe. The real hard-core pages will not just have mainstream dialects like English, Spanish and Hindi, but will also have "disappearing" languages with smaller speech communities, like indigenous languages. The pages which are completely unstoppable, are those with either concocted or fictive speech communities like Esperanto, Klingon or Gallach from the Dune books.
Although creating a page like that of my own would really be as simple as copying and pasting one of the pages floating around out there, I decided to make a sort of similar page, with just a nice little indigenous inversion.
Here I'm proud to present, a sort of "I Love You Page," where I provide a list of different ways to say or express that you love someone in Chamorro.
Hu guaiya hao
I love you
Ya-hu Hao
I like you
Kinenne’ yu’ nu Hågu
I’m hooked (literally ‘taken with’) on you.
Un foyung yu’
You knock me down
Sinekkai yu’ nu Hågu
I have a crush (literally ‘snagged’) on you
Un kahnåyi yu’
Un bewitch (literally ‘cast a spell on’) me
Bai hu gofli’e hao
I will care for you
Ti bai hu dingu hao
I will not leave you
Kao siña un såga na’ya?
Can you stay for a while?
Gof bunita hao
You are very beautiful
Ha penta i eriyå-hu siha mitkilot i binitå-mu
Your beauty paints the world around me with many colors
Todu i bidå-mu siha kulang milagro siha
Everything you do is like miracles
Un na’gofha’an todu i ha’ani-hu siha
You make sunny all my days
Taya’ somnak an taigue hao
There’s no sunshine if you’re gone
Hagu i minagahet-hu
You are my truth
Ti bei maleffa i pinachå-mu
I won’t forget your touch
Mafa’tinåsi hao nu Guahu.
You were made for me
Kada kinalamten-mu siha manmatuge’ gi i hinasso-ku
Each of your movements is written into my memory
Gof mangguaiya yu’!
I’m really in love!
Hågu i guinefe-hu
You are my dream
Ni’ håyi fuera di Hågu
No one but you
Hågu ha’ i malago-hu
You are all I want
Ti siña yu’ mumaigo put Hågu
I can’t sleep because of you
For instance, if you do just general Guam searches you will find a surprisingly alot of Gay community website. I never imagined Guam as some gay oasis in the Pacific, but apparently around the Pacific alot of people do think of Guam as just that.
Also, if you do just general searches for Chamorro, you will receive a bunch of sites for Chamorros in Nicaragua. These aren't ethnic Chamorros but people with the last name Chamorro, such as Edgar Chamorro, a contra fighter and former ambassador to the United Nations, or Violeta Chamorro, a President of Nicaragua in the 1990's.
When I would do searches for Chamorro language however, a certain type of page would constantly show up, "I Love You Pages." I'm sure that most of us have stumbled across these pages, they basically feature how to say "I Love You" in all the known languages in the universe. The real hard-core pages will not just have mainstream dialects like English, Spanish and Hindi, but will also have "disappearing" languages with smaller speech communities, like indigenous languages. The pages which are completely unstoppable, are those with either concocted or fictive speech communities like Esperanto, Klingon or Gallach from the Dune books.
Although creating a page like that of my own would really be as simple as copying and pasting one of the pages floating around out there, I decided to make a sort of similar page, with just a nice little indigenous inversion.
Here I'm proud to present, a sort of "I Love You Page," where I provide a list of different ways to say or express that you love someone in Chamorro.
Hu guaiya hao
I love you
Ya-hu Hao
I like you
Kinenne’ yu’ nu Hågu
I’m hooked (literally ‘taken with’) on you.
Un foyung yu’
You knock me down
Sinekkai yu’ nu Hågu
I have a crush (literally ‘snagged’) on you
Un kahnåyi yu’
Un bewitch (literally ‘cast a spell on’) me
Bai hu gofli’e hao
I will care for you
Ti bai hu dingu hao
I will not leave you
Kao siña un såga na’ya?
Can you stay for a while?
Gof bunita hao
You are very beautiful
Ha penta i eriyå-hu siha mitkilot i binitå-mu
Your beauty paints the world around me with many colors
Todu i bidå-mu siha kulang milagro siha
Everything you do is like miracles
Un na’gofha’an todu i ha’ani-hu siha
You make sunny all my days
Taya’ somnak an taigue hao
There’s no sunshine if you’re gone
Hagu i minagahet-hu
You are my truth
Ti bei maleffa i pinachå-mu
I won’t forget your touch
Mafa’tinåsi hao nu Guahu.
You were made for me
Kada kinalamten-mu siha manmatuge’ gi i hinasso-ku
Each of your movements is written into my memory
Gof mangguaiya yu’!
I’m really in love!
Hågu i guinefe-hu
You are my dream
Ni’ håyi fuera di Hågu
No one but you
Hågu ha’ i malago-hu
You are all I want
Ti siña yu’ mumaigo put Hågu
I can’t sleep because of you
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