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Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪ(t)ʃɪˈljaːnu]; Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).
After Sicily joined the united Kingdom of Italy, the Sicilian language started to feel the influence of the official Italian language. Sicilian picked up some Italian words and constructions.
The Sicilian language (lu sicilianu) is a language spoken in Sicily island and central Calabria. It is spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of Sicily and by emigrants. Speakers. 10 million people speak the language. It has three stocks: the Sicilian, the Calabro-Sicilian and Salentinu.
Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which ‘colonial’ languages belonging to branches as diverse as Italic (Oscan and Latin), Greek and Semitic (Phoenician) interacted with the languages of the natives (the elusive Sicel, Sicanian ...
An Introduction to Sicilian Grammar, by J.K. Kirk Bonner, Edited by Gaetano Cipolla. This is the most comprehensive grammar of the Sicilian language published in the United States. Sicilian is a diferent language, not a dialect of Italian. Indeed it was the first poetic language of Italy.
History. Since the emergence of the modern Romance-based Sicilian language in the early 1st millennium [citation needed], several orthographic systems for writing the language have existed. With the gradual increase in the power of Italian, the Sicilian language had become increasingly decentralised and informal in its orthography.
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Throughout the Islamic epoch of Sicilian history, a significant Greek-speaking population remained on the island and continued to use the Greek language, or most certainly a variant of Greek influenced by Tunisian Arabic. What is less clear is the extent to which a Latin-speaking population survived on the island.
