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  2. Spanish Colombian - Wikipedia

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    A Spanish Colombian is a Colombian of full Spanish descent. Since many of Colombians are of full or partial Spanish descent and their culture is influenced by Spain (Due to the history of Colombia as a Spanish colony) as well as the Colombian government using White Colombian instead of Spanish Colombian, the term is rarely used.

  3. Defense Language Institute - Wikipedia

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    The two primary entities of the Defense Language Institute are the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) and the Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC). DLIFLC is located at the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, California, and DLIELC is located at Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

  4. Academia Colombiana de la Lengua - Wikipedia

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    The academy is the oldest of all the Latin American Spanish language academies, the first official academy founded outside Spain. [2] It was founded in 1871 by a group of writers and philology specialists, including Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara, Manuel María Mallarino; Rufino José Cuervo, the father of Hispanic-American philology; and Miguel Antonio Caro.

  5. Colombian Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The phoneme /x/ is realized as a glottal [] "in all regions [of Colombia]" [6] (as in southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, Ecuadorian coast, the Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean, the Canary Islands, and southern Spain—as well as occasionally in Chile, Peru, and Northwest Argentina).

  6. Caro and Cuervo Institute - Wikipedia

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    The institute was named after two well-known Colombian linguists, former President Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar and Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri. The institute was created by order of the Colombian government in 1942. Its first assignment was the creation of the Spanish language dictionary, Diccionario de Construcción y Régimen de la Lengua ...

  7. List of colonial universities in Hispanic America - Wikipedia

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    When it became apparent that the vast distances of the Spanish realm required a greater geographical spread of universities, they contributed to the creation of further foundations. [ 6 ] A key role in the development of the university system was played by the Catholic orders , especially by the Jesuits , but also the Dominicans and Augustinians .

  8. ‘Igualada’ Review: A Hagiographic Portrait of a History ...

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    The director shares enough of Colombia’s history of civil war, paramilitary violence and politics to ground the film, though a quick search-engine refresher on Colombia’s bitter and lethal ...

  9. Palenquero - Wikipedia

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    Palenquero (sometimes spelled Palenkero) or Palenque (Palenquero: Lengua) is a Spanish-based creole language spoken in Colombia. It is believed to be a mixture of Kikongo (a language spoken in central Africa in the current countries of Congo, DRC, Gabon, and Angola, former member states of Kongo) and Spanish. However, there is not sufficient ...