Malvinas
pronunciation
How to pronounce Malvinas in British English:
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How to pronounce Malvinas in American English:
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Word Origin
- Malvinas
- Argentine name for the Falkland Islands, from French Malouins, name for inhabitants of the French city of St. Malo, who attempted a colony there in 1764 under Louis-Antoine de Bougainville.
Example
- 1. But her outrage over the malvinas plays well at home , even if few argentines believe that it will achieve much .
- 2. Almost every argentine and most latin americans believe that in geography , history and international law the islands they call the malvinas belong to argentina .
- 3. Ask latin americans about the falkland islands and they will say three things : that they are the malvinas , that they belong to argentina , and that therefore their population must be suffering from british colonial domination .
- 4. Argentina 's government protests that britain 's sovereignty over the islands it calls the malvinas is a colonial injustice , and that the principle of territorial integrity demands that they be reunited with the mainland .
- 5. The leaders also expressed their support for argentina 's claim to sovereignty over the falkland ( or malvinas ) islands , which has been reignited by the arrival of an oil exploration rig in the islands .