sicilian is only ignored by italy but several european linguistic studies and many historians considers sicilian as a language, and by the way, as a macrolanguage which comprises the differents sicilian's dialects (sarausa's dialect, palermitanu...), the calabrese's dialects and the Salintinu's dialects.
It is different than most Italian's languages because Sicilian is a Latin, a Greek and an Arabic substrate language at the same time.
Moreover, Sicilan have a sophisticate grammaire and also a rich vocabulary, unique because of its diverse influences.
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