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===Oceania=== [[File:Parque Nacional Rapa Nui.jpg|thumb|Announcement in Spanish on [[Easter Island]], welcoming visitors to [[Rapa Nui National Park]]]] Spanish is the official and most spoken language on [[Easter Island]], which is geographically part of [[Polynesia]] in Oceania and politically part of [[Chile]]. However, Easter Island's traditional language is [[Rapa Nui language|Rapa Nui]], an [[Polynesian languages|Eastern Polynesian language]]. As a legacy of comprising the former [[Spanish East Indies]], Spanish loan words are present in the local languages of [[Guam]], [[Northern Mariana Islands]], [[Palau]], [[Marshall Islands]] and [[Federated States of Micronesia|Micronesia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2005/engelberg-german.pdf |title=The Influence of German on the Lexicon of Palauan and Kosraean (Dissertation) |last=Engelberg |first=Stefan |access-date=23 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121221131940/http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2005/engelberg-german.pdf |archive-date=21 December 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Spanish language in Philippines|url=http://www.spanish-in-the-world.net/Spanish/philippines.php|access-date=1 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318055051/http://www.spanish-in-the-world.net/Spanish/philippines.php|archive-date=18 March 2015}}</ref> In addition, in Australia and New Zealand, there are native Spanish communities, resulting from emigration from Spanish-speaking countries (mainly from the [[Southern Cone]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/anuario/anuario_06-07/pdf/paises_34.pdf |title=cvc.cervantes (Spanish in Australia and New Zealand) |access-date=25 May 2022 |archive-date=16 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616051405/https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/anuario/anuario_06-07/pdf/paises_34.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
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