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Llanito

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Meaning

  1. A vernacular spoken primarily in Gibraltar, based on a mix of Andalusian Spanish and English, but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Italian and Maltese.
  2. A Gibraltarian.

Etymology / origin

From Spanish Llanitos (“people of the flatlands”), or from Italian Gianni (“Johnny”).

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