:And anyway, the text in no way assumes they were definitely Sicani anyway; this is what the current text says: 
 :"and approximately 5000 BCE the nearby islands of Gozo and Malta were colonized from Sicily,[5] and since the other tribes on Sicily did not arrive until later than this, the Sicilians who came to Malta were most likely the Sicanians.[3]" 
 :At no point during that does it involve any synthesis.