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Llanito (Spanglish)

Post 1

lewis66

The dialect referred to as Spanglish is called Llanito (pronounced yanito), it is a mixture of English, Spanish and Genoese (Italian) words.


Llanito (Spanglish)

Post 2

GibraltarRock

This is not quite correct. Spanglish is a fusion of English and Spanish developed in America, Llanito is a creole created by the mixing of Genoese, Spanish Maltese and English (plus a variety of Hebrew, etc and all other available roots)which is specific only to Gibraltar. Spanglish is not a form of Llanito and Llanito is not a form of Spanglish. They developed independently of each other. They are both similar but share no identity. Llanito in its pure form is older than Spanglish and thus has some English derived words which an Englishman would have no hope of recognising such as "Liqurie va"


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