In a letter published in today's Gibraltar Chronicle, Gibraltarian intellectual Charles Durante regards the introduction of Yanito in the annual Short Story Competition as an unequivocal move towards embracing Yanito as a language in its own right. Linguists have conferred Yanito the status of a distinctive language for a long time, and have shown interest in its linguistic characteristic at all levels: phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, social and etymological, as well as other perspectives.
