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Siculian (or Sicel) is an extinct Indo-European language spoken in central and eastern Sicily by the Sicels. It is attested in fewer than thirty inscriptions in eastern Sicily from the late 6th century to 4th century BCE, and in around twenty-five glosses from ancient writers.
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 ).
Some items of Siculo-Arabic vocabulary are comparable with later items found in Maltese. Although Siculo-Arabic has had a relatively minor influence on modern-day Sicilian, this language shares many words of Arabic etymology, which may originate either in Spanish or Siculo-Arabic itself. Some examples are shown in the table a small sample:
They spoke the Siculian language. After the defeat of the Sicels at the Battle of Nomae in 450 BC and the death of Sicel leader Ducetius in 440 BC, the Sicel state broke down and the Sicel culture merged into Magna Graecia .
These languages added to the Gallic influence of the developing Sicilian language (influences which included Norman and Old Occitan) to become the Gallo-Italic of Sicily language family. Gallo-Italic of Sicily evolved from Old Lombard, and thus related to Lombard more closely than other Gallo-Italic languages. [citation needed]
The Italo-Dalmatian languages, including Neapolitan and Sicilian, as well as the Sardinian-influenced Sassarese and Gallurese which are sometimes grouped with Sardinian but are actually of southern Corsican origin. The Sardinian language, usually listed as a group of its own with two main Logudorese and Campidanese orthographic forms.
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 ...
Cademia Siciliana (pronounced [kaˈɾɛːmja sɪʃɪˈljaːna,-ˈdɛː-]; Sicilian Academy) is a transnational non-profit organization founded in 2016 by a group of Sicilian language academics, activists, researchers, and students with the mission to promote the Sicilian language through education, research, and activism.