#siculo

Come scriveva Sciascia nel "il giorno della civetta" ci sono 5 categorie di uomini: gli uomini, i mezz’uomini, gli ominicchi, i pigliainculo e i quaquaraquà.

this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Sicilian. it will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!

info

erase a language, murder a culture: north shore sicilians trying to preserve their endangered language [the new orleans advocate]

glottolog

“in sicilian, we don’t say...”

omniglot

playlist of samples

wikipedia

While I was doing some research about Sicilian language, I came across to this interesting video about Siculo-Arabic and Maltese language. 

*Siculo-Arabic was a vernacular variety of Arabic once spoken on the islands of Sicily and Malta between the end of the 9th century and the end of the 12th century. The language became extinct in Sicily whereas it has developed into what is today the Maltese lanugage.