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| [[Xaetjeon/Lexicon]]
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| '''{{PAGENAME}}''' /ˈdɮetʃɑn/ ({{PAGENAME}}: ''baeychnae Xaetjeon'' /ˈpejxne ˈɮetʃʰɑn/) is a Talman language spoken by the Dxaetjfa people. It is a [[Naquic languages|Naquic language]] (descendant of [[Naquian]]) inspired by Praimhín's [[Gussnish]].
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| Main sources of loanwords:
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| *[[Tíogall]]
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| *[[Netagin]]
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| *[[Bênôcian]]
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| *[[Nurian]]
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| *Some from [[Naquian]]
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| ==Phonology==
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| ===Consonants===
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| {| class="greentable lightgreenbg" style="text-align:center;"
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| !colspan="2"| !!Labial !! Dental !! Alveolar !! Lateral !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal
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| !colspan="2"|Nasal
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| | '''m''' /m/|| '''n''' /n/|| || || || '''ng''' /ŋ/ ||
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| |-
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| !rowspan="2"|Stop
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| !<small>tenuis</small>
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| | '''b''' /p/ || '''d''' /t/ || '''dz''' /ts/ || '''dx''' /tɬ/ || '''dj''' /tʃ/ || '''g''' /k/||
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| !<small>aspirated</small>
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| | '''p''' /pʰ/ || '''t''' /tʰ/ || '''ts''' /tsʰ/ || '''tq''' /tɬʰ/ || '''tj''' /tʃʰ/ || '''c''' /kʰ/ ||
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| !rowspan="2"|Fricative
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| !<small>voiceless</small>
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| | '''f''' /f/ || '''th''' /θ/|| '''s''' /s/ || '''q''' /ɬ/|| '''sj''' /ʃ/ || '''ch''' /x/ || '''h''' /h/
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| !<small>voiced</small>
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| | '''v''' /v/ || '''dh''' /ð/|| '''z''' /z/|| '''x''' /ɮ/ || '''zj''' /ʒ/ || '''gh''' /ɣ/||
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| !colspan="2"| Approximant
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| | || || || '''l''' /l/||'''y''' /j/ || '''w''' /w/||
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| |}
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| ;Notes
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| *In casual speech, the unaspirated stops and affricates /p t ts tɬ tʃ k/ are voiced intervocalically to [b d dz dɮ dʒ ɡ].
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| *Depending on speaker, /l/ may be slightly retracted [l̠] or slightly velarized [lˠ].
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| ===Vowels===
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| {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="greentable lightgreenbg" style="text-align:center;"
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| |+ '''{{PAGENAME}} vowels'''
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| ! style="width: 60px; "|
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Front
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Central
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| ! style="width: 60px; " |Back
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| ! style="" |Close
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| | '''i''' /i/
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| | '''u''' /u/
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| |-
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| ! style="" |Mid
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| | '''ae''' /e/
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| | '''eu''' /ə/
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| | '''o''' /o/
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| ! style="" |Open
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| | '''a''' /æ/
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| | '''eo''' /ɑ/
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| |}
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| ;Notes
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| */ɨ/ is near-close central [ɨ̞].
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| */ə/ may be pronounced [ɤ] by some speakers.
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| ===Mutations===
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| {| class="greentable lightgreenbg"
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| ! Normal
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| || p || f || t || th || ts || s || tq || q || tj || sj || c || b || v || d || dh || dz || z || dx || x || dj || zj || g
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| ! Lenited
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| || f || f || th || th || s || h || q || q || sj || sj || ch || v || v || dh || dh || z || 0 || x || x || zj || zj || gh
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| |}
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| {| class="greentable lightgreenbg"
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| ! Normal
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| || m || n || ng || w || l || y
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| ! Lenited
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| || v || n || ng || w || w || y
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| |}
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| ===Prosody===
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| ====Stress====
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| In native words stress is on the first syllable, not counting prefixes. In loans, stress falls on the same syllable as in the source language.
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| ====Intonation====
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| ===Phonotactics===
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| ===Morphophonology===
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| ==Morphology==
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| ===Nouns===
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| ''-meo/-eom, -nae, -neu'' < ''ixmi, hinē, hinuoz''
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| {| class="greentable lightgreenbg" style="width: 440px; text-align: center;"
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| |-
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| |+ '''''pa'' - person'''
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| !rowspan="2"|
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| !colspan="2"|Indefinite
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| !colspan="2"|Definite
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| !Singular
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| !Plural
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| !Singular
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| !Plural
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| ! Nominative
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| || ''pa'' || ''pameo'' || ''panae'' || ''paneu''
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| ! Vocative
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| || ''fa'' || ''-'' || ''-'' || ''faneu''
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| |}
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| ====Possessive pronouns====
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| The possessive pronouns are: (derived from [[Naquian]] possessive prefixes)
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| {| class="greentable lightgreenbg " style="width: 350px; text-align: center;"
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| !colspan="4" | Possessive pronouns
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| !style="width: 50px; "|
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| !style="width: 100px; "|Singular
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| !style="width: 100px; "|Plural
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| !|1
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| |''neu '''v'''if''<br/>''neu ow''
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| |''meu '''v'''if''<br/>''meu ow''
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| !|1 + 2
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| |''-''
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| |''peu '''v'''if''<br/>''peu ow''
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| !|2
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| |''sjeu '''v'''if''<br/>''sjeu ow''
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| |''tseu '''v'''if''<br/>''tseu ow''
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| !|3
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| |''i '''v'''if''<br/>''i ow''
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| |''i '''m'''if''<br/>''i '''n'''ow''
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| !|Interr/Indef
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| |colspan=2|''tae '''v'''if''<br/>''tae ow''
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| |}
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| Possession is indicated with third-person possessive pronouns: Ex. ''i vif fanae'' = 'the man's house' (The ''panae'' lenites since it follows a feminine noun ''mif''.)
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| ===Adjectives===
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| Adjectives do not take affixes. However, adjectives modifying indefinite feminine nouns (i.e. nouns that ended in a vowel in Naquian) undergo lenition.
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| :'''''pa seowan'''''
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| :''a small person''
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| :'''''mif heowan'''''
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| :''a small house''
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| However, the suffixes ''-nae'' and ''-meo'' (''-eom'' is used for nouns ending in labials) always lenite the following noun:
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| :'''''panae heowan'''''
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| :''the small person''
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| :'''''mifeom heowan'''''
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| :''the small houses''
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| Predicative adjectives precede the subject, while attributive adjectives follow it.
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| ===Pronouns===
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| ===Prepositions and conjunctions===
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| *''tjeo-L'' = and
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| *''teo-L'' = at
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| *''yae-L'' = to
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| ===Verbs===
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| The word order is usually tense-subject-verbnoun-object or, when the object is a pronoun, tense-subject-object-verbnoun. However, tense-verbnoun-subject is acceptable as well. A nominal direct object is lenited; in fact, any indefinite dependent noun is lenited when used after a sequence of verbnoun + adjunct (similarly to the Welsh 'syntactic mutation' and the Modern Standard Arabic 'faulty accusative').
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| Most verbnouns end in ''-asj'' (cognate to Tíogall verbnouns in ''-ach''), but there are exceptions among common verbs.
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| *''Lon teo siv'' = 'I'm running' (''siv'' is a lenited form of ''tsiv''.)
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| *''Lon teo i chaevasj'' = 'I'm protecting it' (lit. "I'm at its protecting")
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| *''Lon teo i chaevasj vifnae'' = 'I'm protecting the house'
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| *''Lon teo chaevasj vifnae'' = 'I'm protecting the house' (colloquial)
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| Examples of syntactic mutation:
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| *''Lo teo siv yae vin '''f'''a.'' = 'Tonight, a man is running.'
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| ====Copula====
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| {| class="greentable lightgreenbg " style="width: 350px; text-align: center;"
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| !colspan="4" | Present tense
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| !style="width: 50px; "|
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| !style="width: 100px; "|Singular
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| !style="width: 100px; "|Plural
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| !|1
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| |''lon''
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| |''lovae''
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| !|1 + 2
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| |''-''
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| |''lont''
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| !|2
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| |''losj''
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| |''lopeo''
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| !|3
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| |''lo''
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| |''loq''
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| |}
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| ===Numbers===
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| Numbers 1-12: paev, tiho, natj-L, tsov, tsaweo, bael-L, oth, loseoth, bas-L, gaeyo, dav, dadheo-L (multiples of 3 lenite the following noun!)
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| ===Derivational morphology===
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| *''-asj'' (f): nominalizer
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| *''-iy'' (f): abstract noun
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| ==Phrasebook==
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| *''Lon Dxaetjfa.'' = I am a Dxaetjeon person.
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| [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
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| [[Category:Naquic languages]]
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| [[Category:Quihum languages]]
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| [[Category:Languages]]
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