Telenovela

Latin American television genre

A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word is a portmanteau of tele (for "television") and novela (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include Musalsala (Arab world), dizi (Turkey), serial (India), teleserye (Philippines), lakorn (Thailand), teleromanzo (Italy), téléroman (Canada, specifically Quebec), K-drama (South Korea), J-drama (Japan), C-drama (China) and sinetron (Indonesia) and myanmar in zat lan twe.

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