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 # Linguist
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/github/linguist.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/github/linguist)
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 [issues]: https://github.com/github/linguist/issues
 [new-issue]: https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/new