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The initial project for the creation of a Sicilian-Italian dictionary was by Professor Giorgio Piccitto, in 1950. The project was then realized thanks to the linguistic section Opera del Vocabolario Siciliano created specifically by the Center for Philological and Linguistic Studies of Sicily .
stritta - Sicilianisation of English word "street" - pronounced s-treeh-tah" (its pronunciation is the same of the word that in Sicilian language means "narrow") tupicu - sicilianisation of English word "toothpick" - pronounced too-pee-koo" Many children of Sicilian immigrants will often confuse actual Sicilian words for Siculish.
Sicilian (Sicilian: sicilianu, Sicilian: [sɪʃɪˈljaːnʊ]; [3] Italian: siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. [4] It belongs to the broader Extreme Southern Italian language group (in Italian italiano meridionale estremo ).
Consigliere (/ ˌ k ɒ n s ɪ l i ˈ ɛər i / KON-sil-ee-AIR-ee, [1] Italian: [konsiʎˈʎɛːre]; plural consiglieri) is a position within the leadership structure of the Sicilian, Calabrian, and Italian-American Mafia. The word was popularized in English by the novel The Godfather (1969) and its film adaptation.
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Sicilian refers to the Italian island of Sicily. Sicilian can also refer to: Sicilian language, a Romance language spoken on the island of Sicily, its satellite islands, and southern Calabria; Sicilians, people from or with origins in Sicily; Sicilian Defence, a chess opening; The Sicilian, a 1984 novel by Mario Puzo
Linguistic map of Italy; Gallo-Italic of Sicily are the small, light-green areas on Sicily.. Gallo-Italic of Sicily, (Italian: Gallo-italico di Sicilia) also known as the Siculo-Lombard dialects, (Italian: Dialetti siculo-lombardi) is a group of Gallo-Italic languages found in about 15 isolated communities of central eastern Sicily.
During the period of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, the Sicilian Latin of the time developed specific elements which reflected local innovations in speech and orthography. Frederick II and his Sicilian School used written Sicilian extensively which is some of the earliest literature and poetry to be produced in an Italo-Romance language. These ...