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Originally Posted by gattupardu
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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i know..i'm studying linguistics at university and i'm italian
nothing to say except that is true it's a macrolanguage,but if it's like this have you looked for the other dialects?many other dialects in italy are ignored...but actually (this is not my thought,many linguists said this!),italy has a particular situation for the language cuz of the dialects: every dialect has its own history and we cannot say which one is more important.Many dialect are just more famous thanks to the spread given by the mass media..for ex (always speaking about italy) Rome dialect or Naples dialect.