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Line 100: Lagunen-Deutsch has integrated elements of the Spanish. This includes the integration of false cognates with the Spanish language, transferring the Spanish meanings into Lagunen-Deutsch. The geographical origin of most or all speakers of Lagunen-Deutsch is Chile, to where the ancestors of the speakers [[German colonization of Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue|immigrated from German-speaking areas of Europe]] in the 19th and 20th centuries. The impact of nineteenth century German immigration to southern Chile was such that [[Valdivia]] was for a while a Spanish-German bilingual city with ''"German signboards and placards alongside the Spanish"''.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Skottsberg | first1 = Carl |