Nillíno

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Nillíno(nillíño, Nillíno: [niˈjiɲo]) is a Sinatolean language spoken in the Nillíno Islands, an archipelago historically colonised by the Spanish and dubbed Islas de San Miguel de la Mancha(Spanish for "Islands of Saint Michael of La Mancha"). Because of this history, Nillíno's orthography is primarily based on the 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 By number of native speakers, it is the 3rd most spoken Sinatolean language with 391,000 speakers, after Mowinda-Moyeng with 765,000 speakers.