Portuñol (also Portunhol), a portmanteau of the words Português (Portuguese) and Español (Spanish), is a mixed language based on Spanish and Portuguese. A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining two words. ... A mixed language is a language that arises when two languages are in contact and there is a high degree of bilingualism among speakers. ...

Portuñol is used in South America, and also occurs between Portugal and Spain. South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...

See also: "Yanito" and "Spanglish" Yanito is the name for the patois or creole spoken in Gibraltar. ... Spanglish, a portmanteau of the words Spanish and English, is a name used to refer to a range of language-contact phenomena, primarily in the speech of the Hispanic population of the USA, which is exposed to both Spanish and English. ...