Sicilian

== Overview ==
Sicilian (sicilianu; Italian: siciliano), also known as Siculo (sìculu) or Calabro-Sicilian, is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. It is also spoken in southern Calabria (where it is called Southern Calabro), specifically in the Province of Reggio Calabria, whose dialect is viewed as being part of the continuum of the Sicilian language. Central Calabria, the southern parts of Apulia (Salentino dialect) and Campania (Cilentano dialect), on the Italian peninsula, are viewed as being part of the broader Far Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo).
Ethnologue (see below for more detail) describes Sicilian as being "distinct enough from Standard Italian to be considered a separate language" and is recognized as a "minority language" by UNESCO. It has been referred to as a language by the Sicilian region. It has the oldest literary tradition of the modern Italian languages.
== Sicilian excerpt from Wikipedia article "Lingua siciliana" ==
Ntô 535, lu Mpiraturi Justinianu I fici addivintari la Sicilia na pruvincia Bizzantina, e pâ secùnna vota ntâ storia siciliana, la lingua greca si sintìa pi tutta l'ìsula. Ma quannu lu putiri Bizzantinu accuminzau a arridducìrisi, la Sicilia vinni cunquistata adaciu adaciu dî saracini di l'Àfrica dû nord, dû sèculu X nzinu â mitati dû sèculu XI. St'Emiri àrabbi èranu munarchi avanzati e ntilliggenti e la Sicilia sfruttau un pirìudu di pruspiritati ecunòmica e d'attivitati ntillituali. La nfruenza àrabba si vidi nta circa 300 palori siciliani, di cui la maiuranza tratta d'agricultura e sìmuli. Chissu havi senzu, pirchì li saracini purtaru cu iddi 'n Sicilia li cchiù muderni mètudi d'abbivirazzioni e cultivazzioni - tanti chianti ntraminzati di l'àrabbi tannu, ancora sunnu tra li cchiù ndèmici dâ Sicilia oi.
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