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  2. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.

  3. Instituto Cervantes - Wikipedia

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    1,240 (2019) [ 1 ] Website. www.Cervantes.es. Instituto Cervantes (Spanish: [instiˈtuto θerˈβantes], the Cervantes Institute) is a worldwide nonprofit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. [ 2 ] It is named after Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the author of Don Quixote and perhaps the most important figure in the ...

  4. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 October 2024. 18th to 19th-century Catholic religious outposts in California For the establishments in modern-day Mexico, see Spanish missions in Baja California. The locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Part of a series on Spanish missions in the Americas of the Catholic Church ...

  5. Spanish language in California - Wikipedia

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    Spanish language in California. The Constitution of California was written in both Spanish (left) and English (right) in 1849. The Spanish language is the most commonly spoken language in California after the English language, spoken by 28.18 percent (10,434,308) of the population (in 2021). [1] Californian Spanish (español californiano) is a ...

  6. Why this American couple swapped California for Spain - AOL

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    October 26, 2023 at 11:23 AM. After a number of failed IVF rounds, health issues and the death of their beloved dog, US couple Jason Luban and Selena Medlen were in need of a change of scenery ...

  7. Association of Academies of the Spanish Language - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española; ASALE) is an entity whose end is to work for the unity, integrity, and growth of the Spanish language. [2] It was created in Mexico in 1951 and represents the union of all the separate academies in the Spanish-speaking world.

  8. Catalan language - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 October 2024. Western Romance language "Catala" redirects here. For the ship, see SS Catala. For the surname, see Catalá. Catalan Valencian català valencià Pronunciation [kətəˈla] (N., C. & B.) / [kataˈla] (NW. & A.) [valensiˈa] (V.) Native to Andorra Spain France Italy Region Southern Europe ...

  9. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century, as the Spanish colonization of the Americas was beginning, the phoneme now represented by the letter j had begun to change its place of articulation from palato-alveolar [ʃ] to palatal [ç] and to velar [x], like German ch in Bach (see History of Spanish and Old Spanish language). In southern Spanish dialects and in those ...