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- In another generation, unless there is a decided increase in the use of Spanish, the persons able to speak it will have dropped to about one percent of the population. (en)
- As a matter of fact Spanish is more than ever the language of polite society, of judicial proceedings and of legislation. More people are speaking Spanish than when American occupation began and indirectly the American schools have promoted that result, inasmuch as educational advance of any kind incites desire to attain the language spoken in good society and thus establish one's position in the ilustrado class. (en)
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