 <!-- the inline citations are overly verbose and some link to nonexistent anchors. the references section is hard-coded rather than properly using the tags. -->  sicilian (; ; also known as siculu or calabro-sicilian) is a romance language, spoken on the island of sicily and its satellite islands. it is also spoken in southern and central calabria (where it is called southern calabro), in the southern parts of apulia, the salento (where it is known as salentino), and campania, on the italian peninsula, where it is called cilentano (gordon, 2005). ethnologue (see below for more detail) describes sicilian as being "distinct enough from standard italian to be considered a separate language" (gordon). some assert that sicilian represents the oldest romance language derived from vulgar latin (privitera, 2004), but this is not a widely held view amongst linguists, and is sometimes strongly criticized (2004, p. 151). == speakers == sicilian is currently spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of sicily and by emigrant populations around the world. the latter are found in the countries which attracted large numbers of sicilian immigrants during the course of the past century or so, especially the united states, canada, australia and argentina. in the past two or three decades, large numbers of sicilians were also attracted to the industrial zones of northern italy and indeed the rest of the european union, especially germany. it is not used as an official language anywhere, even within sicily. there is currently no central body, in sicily or elsewhere, that regulates the language in any way. however, the center for sicilian philological and linguistic studies in palermo has been researching and publishing information on the sicilian language since its inception in 1951.centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani (csfls) the autonomous regional parliament of sicily has leg
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