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scnSicilian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Sicilian (, , also known as Siculu or Calabro-Sicilian) is a Romance language. Its dialects make up the Extreme-Southern Italian language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; 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 mainland, 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).

Entry terms

  • Sicilian language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • scn

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • scn

ISO 639-3 code

  • scn

Notation

  • scn

In other languages

  • Sicilien

    French

  • sicilien
  • Sizilianisch

    German

  • Sizilianische Sprache
  • siciliano

    Italian

  • Lingua siciliana
  • siciliano

    Portuguese

  • Língua siciliana
  • siciliano

    Spanish

  • Idioma siciliano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/scn

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