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Llanito

Also known as Yanito

Llanito is the vernacular speech of Gibraltar, an Andalusian Spanish base mixed heavily with British English through frequent code-switching. It also contains words from Genoese, Maltese, Hebrew and other languages of the settlers who made up Gibraltar's population. It is a marker of Gibraltarian identity.

Llanito
Image: Original by Eric Gaba (Sting), label/legend edits by Jeff Dahl · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Llanito. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/llanito
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“Llanito.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/llanito. Accessed .
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The Epoch Institute. “Llanito.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/llanito.
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The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Llanito’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/llanito (Accessed: ).

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