This year I am focused on listening to Chamorro while reading along with the transcript to better train my ear and absorb more fluent or native-level speech patterns. One set of patterns that I am now more comfortable with is how speech attribution (phrases like he said, “__” or she asked, “___”) occurs in Chamorro. In this series of blog posts, I’m going to talk about the 4 patterns I’ve noticed around speech attribution, and this first post will focus on the use of the work ilek.

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