This article examines the language legislation of the United States territory of Guam as stated in the Organic Act of Guam (1950) and its legal statutes. The article seeks to offer suggestions about how the quality of this language legislation might be improved. As in a few states in the United States (i.e., Hawaii, Louisiana, and New Mexico), Guam established linguistic laws with provisions that protect the language rights of Chamorro speakers, the native population of Guam, especially in the areas of education and language standardization. In spite of the impressive array of language laws enacted by Guam’s legislature to teach Chamorro language and culture in the schools for more than half a century, the use of English is increasing, while that of Chamorro continues to shrink in Guam, which may be due to a lack of buy-in by the indigenous Chamorro population with respect to the importance of expanding the use of this language for the purpose of maintaining a modern-day Chamorro identity.

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美国关岛领土的语言权利

本文研究了关岛组织法（1950 年）及其法律法规中规定的美国关岛领土的语言立法。本文旨在就如何改进该语言立法的质量提出建议。与美国的几个州（即夏威夷、路易斯安那州和新墨西哥州）一样，关岛制定了语言法，其中规定保护说查莫罗语的关岛土著居民的语言权利，尤其是在教育和语言领域标准化。尽管半个多世纪以来，关岛立法机构颁布了一系列令人印象深刻的语言法律，以在学校教授查莫洛语和文化，但英语的使用正在增加，而查莫洛语在关岛的使用率继续下降，