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Regarding my usage of the "obvious": it would only be correct to say that it's obvious to me, sorry for that.

The reasoning goes like this: The word uses the Latin script in its most basic form so it's most probably some western-European language, Romance or Germanic. The phonetic structure fits Spanish the best, compared to other languages that I have any superficial knowledge on, the -ul being the most telling bit.



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