‘Llanito’ thrives

GIBRALTAR’S cultural bosses have now included a prize for a short story in their own Llanito Spanglish fusion for a competition launched earlier this year.

Gibraltar Cultural Services included the new award for best Llanito story alongside prizes for English and Spanish language categories.

A ministry spokesman said the new category would ‘help promote and safeguard our unique language’.

It follows a recent visit by University of Valladolid academics that highlighted the need to preserve Gibraltar’s bilingual heritage.

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the ancient creatures on the feria ground, next to the Conference and Exhibition Centre.

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Users will still be able to access their account when they are travelling, as well as having the option to add extra members for people they don’t live with. This option will cost €5.99 a month per profile in Spain. This will, however, only be available for those with a standard plan (one extra member) or premium plan (two extra members).

The language experts said they were amazed by Gibraltarians’ ability to ‘code-switch’ between English and Spanish in their daily lives.

Cultural officials vowed to make more moves to help preserve the Llanito language, making a start right away with this new category.

Gibraltarians have spoken this variation of Spanglish through the ages, confusing British sailors and Spanish visitors alike. Comedian, poet and academic Jonathan Teuma gave himself the artistic pseudonym ‘Yanito’ at poetry slams he holds in Spanish capital Madrid. Teuma recently released a collection of poetry called A-Slam-Baba-Luba A-SlamBam-Bu while on a visit to Gibraltar.

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