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'''Nillíno'''(''nillíño'', <small>Nillíno:</small> [[Help:IPA|[niˈjiɲo]]], [[w:Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''lengua nillína'', ''lengua de San Miguel'') is a [[Sinatolean languages|Sinatolean]] language spoken | '''Nillíno'''(''nillíño'', <small>Nillíno:</small> [[Help:IPA|[niˈjiɲo]]], [[w:Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''lengua nillína'', ''lengua de San Miguel'') is a [[Sinatolean languages|Sinatolean]] language spoken on Nillíno island(<small>Nillíno:</small> ''nillíntol'', ''nillínca''), an archipelago historically colonised by the Spanish and dubbed ''Islas de San Miguel de la Mancha''(Spanish for "Islands of Saint Michael of [[w:La Mancha|La Mancha]]"). Because of this history, Nillíno's orthography is primarily based on the [[w:Spanish orthography|Spanish alphabet]], leading to the existence of letters such as ⟨ñ⟩ and digraphs such as ⟨ll⟩. Additionally, Nillíno also has many Spanish loanwords which have in turn influenced other neighbouring languages, such as ''mesa'' "table" or ''silla'' "chair", which became ''mesa'' and ''siya'' in [[Sinatolean]]. By number of native speakers, it is the 3rd most spoken Sinatolean language with 391,000 speakers, after [[Mowinda-Moyeng]] with 765,000 speakers. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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| ''telo''<br>(''plural'') || ''tole''<br>(''singular genitive'') || '' | | ''telo''<br>(''plural'') || ''tole''<br>(''singular genitive'') || ''tulo''<br>("not the triggerfish") | ||
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