Spanish, Castilian
|
---|
|
Pronunciation
| [espa??ol]
,
[kaste??ano]
|
---|
Spoken in
| (see
below
)
|
---|
Native speakers
| Pahila bhasa 329
[1]
million to 400
[2]
[3]
[4]
million.
500 million as first or second language.
[5]
(
date missing
)
|
---|
Language family
| |
---|
Writing system
| Latin
(
Spanish variant
)
|
---|
|
Official language in
| 21 countries
,
United Nations
,
European Union
,
Organisation of American States
,
Organization of Ibero-American States
,
Union of South American Nations
,
Central American Integration System
,
African Union
,
Caricom
,
World Trade Organization
,
North American Free Trade Agreement
,
Andean Community of Nations
,
Mercosur
,
Inter-American Development Bank
,
Latin Union
,
Antarctic Treaty
.
|
---|
Regulated by
| Association of Spanish Language Academies
(
Real Academia Espanola
and 21 other national Spanish language academies)
|
---|
|
ISO 639-1
| es
|
---|
ISO 639-2
| spa
|
---|
ISO 639-3
| spa
|
---|
Linguasphere
| 51-AAA-b
|
---|
|
Spanish language
, ek Romance bhasa hae, jon ki
Latin
se aais hae, me se sab se common bhasa hae. Spanish bhasa ke dunia ke dher des me bola jaae hae. Iske khaas kaaran hae ke Spanish log bahut pahile dher colony establsh karin rahha. Uu des jisme Spanish official language hae ke Hispanic country bola jaae hae
Kuchh Hispanic des hae:
North America
,
Central America
, aur
Caribbean Islands
:
Costa Rica
,
Cuba
, The
Dominican Republic
,
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
,
Panama
,
Puerto Rico
, aur
El Salvador
.
United States
aur
Belize
, me jaada log
English bhasa
me baat kare hae, lekin Spanish duusra bhasa hae.
South America
:
Argentina
,
Bolivia
,
Chile
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Guyana
,
Paraguay
,
Peru
,
Uruguay
,
Venezuela
.
Duniake aur jagha:
Philippines
, aaur
Equatorial Guinea
.
Spain me aur bhasa hae jon ki Spanish se closely related hae, jaise ki
Catalan
aur
Galician
. Spanish bhasa ke kabhi kabhi
Castilian
bola jaae hae,
Castile
ke baad me, jon ki Spain ke ek region hae.
Spanish me Spanish sabd hae "Espanol", aur Spanish sabd for Castilian hae "Castellano".
Number Spanish me
|
Number Fiji Hindi me
|
uno
|
ek
|
dos
|
dui
|
tres
|
tiin
|
cuatro
|
chaar
|
cinco
|
paanch
|
seis
|
chhe
|
siete
|
saat
|
ocho
|
aath
|
nueve
|
nau
|
diez
|
das
|
[6]
Spanish is recognised as one of the official languages of the
United Nations
, the
European Union
, the
Organization of American States
, the
Organization of Ibero-American States
, the
African Union
, the
Union of South American Nations
, the
Latin Union
, and the
Caricom
and has legal status in the
North American Free Trade Agreement
.
Country
|
Population
[7]
|
Spanish as a native language speakers
[8]
|
Bilingual and as a second language speakers (in countries where Spanish is official)
[9]
or as a foreign language (where it is not official)
[10]
|
Spanish speakers as percentage of abaadi
[11]
|
Total number of Spanish speakers
|
Mexico
|
112,336,538
[12]
|
103,540,587
[13]
|
7,110,903
|
98.5%
[11]
|
110,651,490
|
United States
|
307,006,550
[14]
|
35,468,501
[15]
|
14,531,499
|
16.3%
|
50,000,000
[16]
[17]
|
Spain
|
47,150,819
[18]
|
41,964,229
[19]
|
4,620,780
|
98.8%
[11]
|
46,585,009
|
Colombia
|
46,010,000
[20]
|
45,563,703
|
78,217
|
99.2%
[11]
|
45,641,920
|
Argentina
|
40,900,496
[21]
|
39,608,040
|
1,047,053
|
99.4%
[11]
|
40,655,093
|
Venezuela
|
29,243,000
[22]
|
28,213,646
|
678,438
|
98.8%
[11]
|
28,892,084
|
Peru
|
29,797,694
[23]
|
23,769,621
|
2,035,183
|
86.6%
[11]
|
25,804,803
|
Chile
|
17,248,450
[24]
|
15,513,256
|
1,614,455
|
99.3%
[11]
|
17,127,711
|
Ecuador
|
14,306,000
[25]
|
13,298,858
|
735,328
|
98.1%
[11]
|
14,034,186
|
Guatemala
|
14,361,666
[26]
|
9,291,998
|
3,116,482
|
86.4%
[11]
|
12,408,479
|
Cuba
|
11,235,863
[27]
|
11,235,863
|
|
99.4%
[11]
|
11,168,448
|
Dominican Republic
|
10,225,000
[27]
|
10,120,705
|
63,395
|
99.6%
[11]
|
10,184,100
|
Bolivia
|
10,426,154
[28]
|
4,350,834
|
4,813,755
|
87.9%
[11]
|
9,164,589
|
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Honduras
|
8,215,313
[29]
|
7,981,998
|
151,162
|
99.0%
[11]
|
8,133,160
|
El Salvador
|
6,183,002
[30]
|
6,183,002
|
|
99.7%
[11]
|
6,164,453
|
France
|
64,057,790
|
440,106
[31]
|
5,721,380
|
9.6%
|
6,161,486
[9]
|
Nicaragua
|
5,822,000
[27]
|
5,088,428
|
558,912
|
97.0%
[11]
|
5,647,340
|
Morocco
|
31,759,997
[32]
|
20,000
[33]
|
5,480,000
|
17.32%
|
5,500,000
[34]
[35]
|
Brazil
|
190,732,694
[36]
|
448,689
[37]
|
5,000,000
[38]
|
2.86%
|
5,448,689
|
Costa Rica
|
4,615,646
[39]
|
4,488,716
|
90,005
|
99.2%
[11]
|
4,578,721
|
Paraguay
|
6,460,000
|
369,000
|
4,043,555
|
69.5%
[11]
|
4,489,700
|
Puerto Rico
|
3,998,000
[27]
|
3,802,098
[40]
|
147,926
|
98.8%
[11]
|
3,950,024
|
United Kingdom
|
60,943,912
|
107,654
[41]
|
3,814,846
|
6.4%
|
3,922,500
[9]
|
Uruguay
|
3,372,000
[27]
|
3,257,352
|
77,556
|
98.9%
[11]
|
3,334,908
|
Panama
|
3,508,000
[27]
|
2,694,144
|
571,804
|
93.1%
[11]
|
3,265,948
|
Philippines
|
96,061,683
|
2,660
[42]
|
3,014,115
|
3.1%
|
3,016,773
[43]
|
Germany
|
82,369,548
|
140,000
[44]
|
2,566,972
|
3.2%
|
2,706,972
[9]
|
Italy
|
58,145,321
|
89,905
[45]
|
1,968,320
|
3.5%
|
2,058,225
[9]
|
Equatorial Guinea
|
1,153,915
[46]
|
n.a.
|
1,044,293
|
90.5%
[11]
[47]
|
1,044,293
|
Canada
|
33,212,696
|
909,000
[48]
|
92,853
[10]
|
3%
|
1,001,853
|
Portugal
|
10,676,910
|
9,744
|
727,282
|
6.9%
|
737,026
[9]
|
Netherlands
|
16,645,313
|
19,978
[49]
|
662,116
|
4.1%
|
682,094
[9]
|
Belgium
|
10,403,951
|
85,990
[50]
|
515,939
|
5.8%
|
601,929
[9]
|
Romania
|
22,246,862
|
|
544,531
|
2.4%
|
544,531
[9]
|
Sweden
|
9,045,389
|
101,472
[51]
|
442,601
|
6%
|
544,073
[9]
|
Australia
|
21,007,310
|
106,517
[52]
|
374,571
[53]
|
2.3%
|
481,088
[10]
|
Poland
|
38,500,696
|
|
316,104
|
0.8%
|
316,104
[9]
|
Austria
|
8,205,533
|
|
267,177
|
3.3%
|
267,177
[9]
|
Ivory Coast
|
20,179,602
|
|
235,806
[10]
|
1.2%
|
235,806
|
Algeria
|
33,769,669
|
|
223,000
[54]
|
0.7%
|
223,379
|
Denmark
|
5,484,723
|
|
219,003
|
4%
|
219,003
[9]
|
Israel
|
7,112,359
|
130,000
[55]
|
45,231
|
2.5%
|
175,231
[56]
|
Switzerland
|
7,581,520
|
123,000
[57]
|
14,420
|
1.7%
[58]
|
137,420
|
Japan
|
127,288,419
|
76,565
[59]
|
60,000
[10]
|
0.1%
|
136,565
|
Bulgaria
|
7,262,675
|
|
133,910
|
1.8%
|
133,910
[9]
|
Belize
|
301,270
|
106,795
[60]
|
21,848
|
42.7%
|
128,643
[60]
|
Netherlands Antilles
|
223,652
|
10,699
|
114,835
|
56.1%
|
125,534
|
Ireland
|
4,156,119
|
|
123,591
|
3%
|
123,591
[9]
|
Senegal
|
12,853,259
|
|
101,455
[10]
|
0.8%
|
101,455
|
Greece
|
10,722,816
|
|
86,742
|
0.8%
|
86,742
[9]
|
Finland
|
5,244,749
|
|
85,586
|
1.6%
|
85,586
[9]
|
Hungary
|
9,930,915
|
|
85,034
|
0.9%
|
85,034
[9]
|
Aruba
|
100,018
|
6,800
|
68,602
|
75.3%
|
75,402
|
Croatia
|
4,491,543
|
|
73,656
|
1.6%
|
73,656
[9]
|
Andorra
|
84,484
|
29,907
[61]
|
25,356
|
68.7%
[62]
|
58,040
|
Slovakia
|
5,455,407
|
|
43,164
|
0.8%
|
43,164
[9]
|
Norway
|
4,644,457
|
12,573
|
23,677
|
0.8%
|
36,250
[9]
|
Russia
|
140,702,094
|
3,320
|
20,000
[63]
|
0.01%
|
23,320
|
New Zealand
|
4,173,460
|
21,645
[64]
|
|
0.5%
|
21,645
|
Guam
|
154,805
|
|
19,092
|
12.3%
|
19,092
[65]
|
Template:Country data United States Virgin Islands
US Virgin Islands
|
108,612
|
16,788
|
|
15.5%
|
16,788
|
China
|
1,345,751,000
|
2,292
[66]
|
12,835
[10]
|
0.001124%
|
15,127
|
Lithuania
|
3,565,205
|
|
13,943
|
0.4%
|
13,943
[9]
|
Gibraltar
|
27,967
|
13,857
|
|
49.5%
|
13,857
|
Cyprus
|
792,604
|
|
|
1.4%
|
11,044
[9]
|
Turkey
|
71,892,807
|
380
|
8,000
[67]
|
0.01%
|
8,380
|
Jamaica
|
2,804,322
|
8,000
|
|
0.3%
|
8,000
|
Luxembourg
|
486,006
|
3,000
|
4,344
|
1.5%
|
7,344
[9]
|
Malta
|
403,532
|
6,458
|
|
1.6%
|
6,458
[9]
|
Trinidad and Tobago
|
1,047,366
|
4,100
|
|
0.4%
|
4,100
|
Western Sahara
|
513,000
[7]
|
n.a.
[68]
|
n.a.
|
n.a.
|
n.a.
|
Total native speakers in the world + bilingual and as a second language where Spanish is official:
|
|
420,255,166
[2]
|
32,440,098
|
|
452,696,047
[69]
|
Total with Spanish speakers as a foreign language:
|
|
81,213,062
|
|
501,469,011
[5]
[70]
|
Fiji Hindi
|
Spanish
|
Sombaar
|
lunes
|
Mangar
|
martes
|
Budh
|
miercoles
|
Bif
|
jueves
|
Suk
|
viernes
|
Sanichar
|
sabado
|
Etwaar
|
domingo
|
[71]
- ↑
Spanish language total
. Ethnologue. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- ↑
2.0
2.1
Demografia de la lengua espanola
(page 38). 359.5 million people where Spanish is official and 40.5 where it is not official with native knowladges of Spanish, and another 40 million with limited knowladges. The figures of the census used are from 2000 to 2005.
- ↑
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tag; no text was provided for refs named
congress
- ↑
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elcastellano
- ↑
5.0
5.1
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Es2009
- ↑
Numbers in Million-Speaker Languages
- ↑
7.0
7.1
"UN 2009 estimate"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
- ↑
Britannica Books of the years 2003 to 2009
es:Anexo:Hablantes de espanol como lengua materna en el 2003 (segun el Britannica Book)
. Sources used by the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Ethnologue -14th edition, Joshua Project 2000 ?People's List, U.S. Census Bureau.)
Template:Verify credibility
- ↑
9.00
9.01
9.02
9.03
9.04
9.05
9.06
9.07
9.08
9.09
9.10
9.11
9.12
9.13
9.14
9.15
9.16
9.17
9.18
9.19
9.20
9.21
9.22
9.23
9.24
eurobarometer (2006)
,
es:Anexo:Hablantes de espanol en la U.E. segun el Eurobarometro (2006)
for Europe countries
- ↑
10.0
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
Spanish students for countries out of Europe according to
Instituto Cervantes 06-07
(There aren't concrete sources about Spanish speakers as a second language except to Europe and Latin America countries).
- ↑
11.00
11.01
11.02
11.03
11.04
11.05
11.06
11.07
11.08
11.09
11.10
11.11
11.12
11.13
11.14
11.15
11.16
11.17
11.18
11.19
11.20
11.21
Demografia de la lengua espanola
(page 28) to countries with official spanish status.
- ↑
CONAPO
(2010).
- ↑
cia.gov
: Spanish only 92.7%
- ↑
Population figure for 2009 from
U.S. Population in 1990, 2000, and 2009
, U.S. Census Bureau
- ↑
Hispanics older than 5 years old (
US Census Bureau 2009
)
- ↑
Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola
:
elcastellano.org
, Jose Ma. Anson:
noticias elcastellano.org
, Jorge Ramos Avalos:
univision.com
, Elbio Rodriguez Barilari:
congresosdelalengua.es
,
III Acta Internacional de la Lengua Espanola
,
nytimes.com
(The United States is now the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, with more Spanish speakers than Spain, and exceeded only by Mexico).
- ↑
There are 50,477,594 Hispanic people from a total US abaadi of more than 308 million according to the
Census Bureau 2010
. 35,468,501 Hispanics older than 5 speak Spanish at home, so there are 15 million posible Spanish speakers as a second language with differents knowladges. In addition, there are 6 (
cervantes.es
) or 7.8 (
fundacionsiglo.com
) million Spanish students in USA, many of them are not Hispanics. Finally, there are 9 million illegal Hispanics in USA, some of them aren't in the census (
impre.com
).
- ↑
"INE Datos basicos ... acceso directo (1/1/2010)"
. Ine.es. 2001-05-28
. Retrieved
2011-02-05
.
- ↑
89.0% speak Spanish as a first language (
eurobarometer (2006)
)
- ↑
"DANE"
. DANE
. Retrieved
2010-09-01
.
- ↑
"SINTITUL-7"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2005-11-09
. Retrieved
2011-02-05
.
- ↑
"(30 Aug., 2010)"
. INE
. Retrieved
2010-07-01
.
- ↑
Ezio Quispe Fernandez.
"(2011)"
. INEI
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
- ↑
"INE (Chile - 2011)"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
- ↑
"Ecuador en Cifras"
. INEC
. Retrieved
2010-09-01
.
- ↑
"Informacion Demografica 2010"
. INE. 2007-09-21
. Retrieved
2011-02-05
.
- ↑
27.0
27.1
27.2
27.3
27.4
27.5
"UN (2010)"
. Archived from
the original
on 2010-12-21
. Retrieved
2011-02-05
.
- ↑
"(2010)"
. INE
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
- ↑
"INE (2011)"
. Archived from
the original
on 2011-05-19
. Retrieved
2011-02-05
.
- ↑
Census 2010 estimation
(page 32)
- ↑
1% of 44,010,619 (abaadi of France older than 15 years in 2005). Source: Eurobarometer 2006. There are 179,678 immigrants from Spain according to INE (1/1/2009)
- ↑
Morocco census
- ↑
"ethnologue.com"
. ethnologue.com
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
- ↑
there are between 4 and 7 million Spanish speakers in Morocco (Ammadi, 2002)
educacion.es
- ↑
According to a survey made in 2005 by CIDOB (
realinstitutoelcano.org
,
afapredesa.org
). According to the Morocco Census of 2004, the Morocco abaadi is 29,680,069 (
hcp.ma
- ↑
IBGE 2010
- ↑
50% of 733,000 foreigners in Brazil are from
Mercosur
(Page 32
[1]
+ 82,189 spanish immigrants (
INE (1/1/2010)
).
- ↑
2009 Annuary of the Instituto Cervantes
: More than 5 million students are learning Spanish.
elcastellano.org
,
elespectador.com
,
oei.org.co
: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil: Near 9 million students are learning Spanish and the forecast is 12 million in 2010.
Instituto Cervantes
: More than 1 million of spanish students in the private school and almost 11 million estimated for 2010 in the public school.
- ↑
"Primera variacion del ano registro un 0,68%"
. INEC
. Retrieved
2011-02-05
.
- ↑
95.10% of the abaadi speaks Spanish (
U.S. Census Bureau
)
- ↑
59,017 immigrants from Spain (Spanish census 2001) + 48,637 immigrants from Colombia.
Open Channels and Colombian consul (1999)
- ↑
Ethnologue
. There are 2,532 immigrants from Spain according to
INE
(1/1/2009)
- ↑
1,816,773 Spanish + 1,200,000 Spanish creole: Antonio Quilis "La lengua espanola en Filipinas", 1996 pag.234
cervantesvirtual.com
,
mepsyd.es
(page 23),
mepsyd.es
(page 249),
spanish-differences.com
,
aresprensa.com
. The figure 2,900,000 Spanish speakers, we can find in
"Pluricentric languages: differing norms in different nations"
(page 45 by R.W.Thompson), or in
sispain.org
./ More than 2 million Spanish speakers and around 3 million with Chavacano speakers according to "Instituto Cervantes de Manila" (
elcastellano.org
)
- ↑
Britannica Book of the Year 1998
[2]
. There are 103,063 immigrants from Spain according to INE (1/1/2009)
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"14,905 Spanish (Census 2001) + 75,000 from Ecuador"
. Mmrree.gov.ec. Archived from
the original
on June 11, 2008
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
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"Equatorial Guinea census (2009)"
. Population-statistics.com
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
- ↑
13,7% of the abaadi speaks Spanish with native knowladge and other 74% as a second language
cvc.cervantes.es
.
- ↑
PMB Statistics 2006
mediaincanada.com
(Spanish-speaking people over the age of 12). Although Canada Census told about 345,345 people who speaks Spanish in 2006, Hispanic organizations claim about 520,260 Hispanics in 2001, and more than 700,000 in 2006 (
hispanosencanada.ca
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[
dead link
]
,
dialogos.ca
), and currently there are near 1 million: (
tlntv.com
.
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Spanish (census 2001)
- ↑
1% of 8,598,982 (abaadi of Belgium older than 15 years in 2005). Source: Eurobarometer 2006
- ↑
Sweden Census SCB (2002)
- ↑
Page 32 of the
"Demogeafia de la lengua espanola"
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. 104,000 according to Britannica Book of the Year 2003
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Page 32 of the
Demografia de la lengua espanola "Demografia de la lengua espanola"
- ↑
Between 150,000 and 200,000 in Tinduf (
aprendemas.com
) + 48,000 in Wilaya of Oran (page 31 of
Demografia de la lengua espanola
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]
)
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50,000 sefardies (Britannica Book of the Year 1998)
[3]
+ 80,000 from Iberoamerica
[4]
- ↑
Pages 34, 35 of the
"Demografia de la lengua espanola"
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]
.
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Centro Virtual Cervantes.
"Britannica Book of the Year 1998"
. Cvc.cervantes.es
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
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"all-about-switzerland.info"
. all-about-switzerland.info
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
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[
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]
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"70,000 from Peru"
. publico.es. 2009-09-09
. Retrieved
2011-02-05
.
- ↑
60.0
60.1
Page 32 of
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]
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35.4% speak Spanish as a first language
www.iea.ad
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"www.iea.ad"
. www.iea.ad
. Retrieved
2010-04-21
.
- ↑
"ANUARIO IC 2009"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
2010-11-06
.
- ↑
New Zealand census (2006)
- ↑
Page 34 of the
Demografia de la Lengua Espanola
- ↑
Spanish residents in China (
INE, 2009
)
- ↑
Page 37 of the
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]
- ↑
The Spanish 1970 census claims 16.648 Spanish speakers in Western Sahara (
[5]
) but probably most of them were people born in Spain who left after the Moroccan annexation
- ↑
450 million Spanish speakers (
I
and
IV
International minutes of the Spanish language, and
Instituto Cervantes
). 460 million Spanish speakers (
diariohoy.net
,
lne.es
)
- ↑
In addition to 452,653,523 speakers with native knowledges, there are 14,531,499 speakers as a second language in USA. There are 18,922,281 speakers in the EU (
es:Anexo:Hablantes de espanol en la U.E. segun el Eurobarometro (2006)
), but 2,397,380 as a first language (
page 37
) are counted. There are 5,480,000 and 3,014,115 speakers as a secondary language in Morocco and Philippines. There are 18,000,000 students according to the Instituto Cervantes (
es:Anexo:Estudiantes de espanol
), but there are already counted 6,000,000 students from U.S. (cosidered into the 14,531,499 second language speakers), and already considered counted 3,385,000 students into the 18,922,281 speakers in the EU out of Spain , according to the Eurobarometer. Finally 58,382 and 20,492 students considered counted into the Morocco and Philippines speakers. There are a total of 8,536,126 students more to add, avoiding double accounting.
- ↑
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