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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

In other languages

  • Sisiliaans

    Afrikaans

  • Gjuha siciliane

    Albanian

  • الصقلية

    Arabic

  • لغة صقلية
  • Idioma secilián

    Aragonese

  • Sicilien

    Arpitan

  • Sicilianu

    Asturian

  • sisili dili

    Azerbaijani

  • সিসিলিয়ান

    Bangla

  • Siziliera

    Basque

  • सीसीलीअन

    Bodo

  • сицилијански

    Bosnian

  • сицилиански

    Bulgarian

  • Сицилиански език
  • sicilià

    Catalan

  • Sicilià
  • 西西里语

    Chinese

  • Сицили чĕлхи

    Chuvash

  • Lingua siciliana

    Corsican

  • sicilijski

    Croatian

  • Sicilijanski jezik
  • sicilština

    Czech

  • Sicilština
  • siciliansk

    Danish

  • Siciliaans

    Dutch

  • Sicilia lingvo

    Esperanto

  • sitsiilia

    Estonian

  • Luenga siciliana

    Extremaduran

  • Finnish

  • Sisilian kieli
  • sicilien

    French

  • Sicilien
  • sicilian

    Friulian

  • Lingua siciliana

    Galician

  • სიცილიური

    Georgian

  • Sizilianisch

    German

  • Sizilianische Sprache
  • Σικελιανά

    Greek

  • સિસિલિયાન

    Gujarati

  • Sî-sî-lî-ngî

    Hakka Chinese

  • סיציליאנית

    Hebrew

  • सिसिलियन

    Hindi

  • szicíliai

    Hungarian

  • Szicíliai nyelv
  • sikileyska

    Icelandic

  • Sisilia

    Indonesian

  • Bahasa Sisilia
  • An tSicilis

    Irish

  • siciliano

    Italian

  • Lingua siciliana
  • シチリア語

    Japanese

  • Basa Sisilia

    Javanese

  • ಸಿಸಿಲಿಯನ್

    Kannada

  • سِچِلِیَن

    Kashmiri

  • Сицил кыв

    Komi

  • 시칠리아어

    Korean

  • Sîcîlyanî

    Kurdish

  • ຊີຊິລີນ

    Lao

  • Lingua Sicula

    Latin

  • sicīliešu

    Latvian

  • Sicīliešu valoda
  • Lengua siciliann-a

    Ligurian

  • siciliečių

    Lithuanian

  • Sisiliaans

    Low German

  • сицилијански

    Macedonian

  • സിസിലിയൻ

    Malayalam

  • Lingwa Sqallija

    Maltese

  • Shisslish

    Manx

  • सिसिलियन

    Marathi

  • Lengua siciliana

    Neapolitan

  • sisiliagiella

    Northern Sami

  • Siciliansk

    Norwegian

  • siciliansk

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • siciliansk

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • Siciliansk
  • Sicilian

    Occitan

  • ସିଶିଲିଆନ୍

    Odia

  • Сицилиаг æвзаг

    Ossetic

  • سیسیلی

    Persian

  • زبان سیسیلی
  • Lenga sicilian-a

    Piedmontese

  • sycylijski

    Polish

  • Język sycylijski
  • siciliano

    Portuguese

  • Língua siciliana
  • siciliană

    Romanian

  • Limba siciliană
  • sicilian

    Romansh

  • сицилийский

    Russian

  • Сицилийский язык
  • Limba sitziliana

    Sardinian

  • Сицилијански

    Serbian

  • Sicilijanski jezik

    Serbo-Croatian

  • Lingua siciliana

    Sicilian

  • sicílčina

    Slovak

  • sicilijanščina

    Slovenian

  • siciliano

    Spanish

  • Idioma siciliano
  • Swedish

  • Sicilianska
  • Sizilianisch

    Swiss German

  • சிசிலியன்

    Tamil

  • சிசிலிய மொழி
  • సిసిలియన్

    Telugu

  • ซิซิลี

    Thai

  • ภาษาซิซิลี
  • སི་ཅི་ལིའི་སྐད།

    Tibetan

  • Sicilyaca

    Turkish

  • сицилійська

    Ukrainian

  • Сицилійська мова
  • سىتسىلىيە تىلى

    Uyghur

  • Tiếng Sicilia

    Vietnamese

  • Sisileg

    Welsh

URI

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

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