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The "Vocabolario siciliano" is a five-volume lexicographic work on the Sicilian language by Giorgio Piccitto, Salvatore Tropea, and Salvatore Carmelo Trovato.It was realised with assistance from the Sicilian Autonomous Region and the National Research Council (Italy).
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 ).
This is a glossary of words related to the Mafia, primarily the Sicilian Mafia and Italian American Mafia. administration: the top-level "management" of an organized crime family -- the boss, underboss and consigliere. [1] associate: one who works with mobsters, but has not been asked to take the vow of Omertà; an almost confirmed, or made guy ...
Since the emergence of the modern Romance-based Sicilian language in the early 1st millennium [citation needed], several orthographic systems for writing the language have existed. With the gradual increase in the power of Italian, the Sicilian language had become increasingly decentralised and informal in its orthography. Furthermore, its ...
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.
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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