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  2. Bogotá - Wikipedia

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    The name of Bogotá corresponds to the Spanish pronunciation of the Chibcha Bacatá (or Muyquytá) which was the name of a neighboring settlement located between the modern towns of Funza and Cota. There are different opinions about the meaning of the word Muyquytá, the most accepted being that it means "walling of the farmland" in the Chibcha ...

  3. Colombian Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The educated speech of Bogotá, a generally conservative variety of Spanish, has high popular prestige among Spanish-speakers throughout the Americas. [3] The Colombian Academy of Language (Academia Colombiana de la Lengua) is the oldest Spanish language academy after Spain's Royal Spanish Academy; it was founded in 1871. [4]

  4. Chibcha language - Wikipedia

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    fulano muysca person cha male cho good guy COP fulano muysca cha cho guy fulano person male good COP So-and-so is a good male (1b) (Lugo, 1619:3r) muysca person fuhucha woman cho good muysca fuhucha cho person woman good Good woman Adjective The adjective muysca does not agree in gender or number with the noun. According to its form, it can be basic, derived or periphrastic. The periphrastic ...

  5. Citytv Bogotá - Wikipedia

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    Citytv (Spanish pronunciation: [sˈɪti tˌeˈβe]) is a Colombian free-to-air television channel, owned by El Tiempo Casa Editorial (ETCE), owner of the newspaper of the same name. ETCE licensed the Canadian brand Citytv from CHUM Limited (later sold off to Rogers Media). It began broadcasting on March 19, 1999 on UHF channel 21 in Bogotá.

  6. Guerra del centavo - Wikipedia

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    A group of buses in central Bogotá. The guerra del centavo period was marked by an oversupply of buses throughout the city causing monopolistic competition.. Guerra del centavo (Latin American Spanish pronunciation: [ˈgera ðel senˈtaβo], 'penny war') is the name given to a period in the history of Bogotá, capital city of Colombia, where deregulation of public transport following ...

  7. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    The phone occurs as a deaffricated pronunciation of /tʃ/ in some other dialects (most notably, Northern Mexican Spanish, informal Chilean Spanish, and some Caribbean and Andalusian accents). [14] Otherwise, /ʃ/ is a marginal phoneme that occurs only in loanwords or certain dialects; many speakers have difficulty with this sound, tending to ...

  8. Help:IPA/Spanish - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  9. Santa Fe, Bogotá - Wikipedia

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    Santa Fe (Spanish pronunciation:) is the third locality of Bogotá, the Capital District of Colombia. Santa Fe is part of the traditional downtown area where Bogotá was founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada on August 6, 1538. Historically, this area comprised the entire main urban area of Bogotá, and was known as "Santa Fe de Bogotá".