Languages of Apulia - Neapolitan Language, Sicilian Language, Greek Language, Baaria, Griko Language, Sicilian Vowel System, Bari Dialect (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Neapolitan language, Sicilian language, Greek language, Baaria, Griko language, Sicilian vowel system, Bari dialect, Tarantino language, Renato Carosone, Southern Italian, Giambattista Basile, Marino Marini, Salentino, Siculish, Neapolitan articles, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Giulio Cesare Cortese, Cilentan language, Comme e ddoce 'o mare, Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, Irpinian dialect. Excerpt: Sicilian (, Italian: , also known as Siculu or Calabro-Sicilian) is a Romance language. Its dialects make up the Italiano Meridionale-estremo 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). Sicilian is currently spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of Sicily and by emigrant populations around the world. The latter are to be found in the countries which attracted large numbers of Sicilian immigrants during the course of the past century or so, especially the United States, Canada, Australia and Argentina. In the past two or three decades, large numbers of Sicilians were also attracted to the industrial zones of northern Italy and indeed the rest of the European Union, especially Germany. It is not used as an official language anywhere, even within Sicily. There is currently ...