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257 relations: Aeolian Islands, Affricate, Agrigento, Aidone, Albert Dauzat, Alveolar consonant, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, Angel of God, Antonio Veneziano (poet), Apheresis (linguistics), Approximant, Apulia, Arab Agricultural Revolution, Arabic, Arabs, Aragonese language, Arancini, Arba Sicula, Argentina, Associated University Presses, Australia, Austrian Empire, Austrians, Auxiliary verb, Baccagghju, Bari, Bazaar, Benevento, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Bova, Calabria, Bronte, Sicily, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Buffalo, New York, Byzantine Empire, Cademia Siciliana, Calabria, Calicotome, Caltagirone, Caltanissetta, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Canada, Canestrato, Cannoli, Capetian House of Anjou, Cassata, Catalan language, ... Expand index (207 more) »
- Italo-Dalmatian languages
- Languages of Apulia
- Languages of Calabria
- Languages of Sicily
Aeolian Islands
The Aeolian Islands (Isole Eolie; Ìsuli Eoli), sometimes referred to as the Lipari Islands or Lipari group after their largest island, are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, said to be named after Aeolus, the mythical ruler of the winds.
See Sicilian language and Aeolian Islands
Affricate
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).
See Sicilian language and Affricate
Agrigento
Agrigento (Girgenti or Giurgenti; translit; Agrigentum or Acragas; ’GRGNT; Kirkant, or جرجنت Jirjant) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento.
See Sicilian language and Agrigento
Aidone
Aidone (Gallo-Italic of Sicily: Aidungh or Dadungh; Aiduni) is a town and comune in the province of Enna, in region of Sicily in southern Italy.
See Sicilian language and Aidone
Albert Dauzat
Albert Dauzat (4 July 1877 – 31 October 1955) was a French linguist specializing in toponymy and onomastics.
See Sicilian language and Albert Dauzat
Alveolar consonant
Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.
See Sicilian language and Alveolar consonant
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
See Sicilian language and Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. Sicilian language and ancient Greek are languages of Sicily.
See Sicilian language and Ancient Greek
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
See Sicilian language and Ancient Rome
Angel of God
"Angel of God" (Ángele Dei) is a Roman Catholic traditional prayer for the intercession of the guardian angel, often taught to young children as the first prayer learned.
See Sicilian language and Angel of God
Antonio Veneziano (poet)
Antonio Veneziano (1543 - 19 August 1593) was an Italian poet who wrote mainly in the Sicilian language.
See Sicilian language and Antonio Veneziano (poet)
Apheresis (linguistics)
In phonetics and phonology, apheresis (aphaeresis) is a sound change in which a word-initial vowel is lost, e.g., American > 'Merican.
See Sicilian language and Apheresis (linguistics)
Approximant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
See Sicilian language and Approximant
Apulia
Apulia, also known by its Italian name Puglia, is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south.
See Sicilian language and Apulia
Arab Agricultural Revolution
The Arab Agricultural Revolution was the transformation in agriculture in the Old World during the Islamic Golden Age (8th to 13th centuries).
See Sicilian language and Arab Agricultural Revolution
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. Sicilian language and Arabic are languages of Sicily.
See Sicilian language and Arabic
Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
See Sicilian language and Arabs
Aragonese language
Aragonese (in Aragonese) is a Romance language spoken in several dialects by about 12,000 people as of 2011, in the Pyrenees valleys of Aragon, Spain, primarily in the comarcas of Somontano de Barbastro, Jacetania, Alto Gállego, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza/Ribagorça.
See Sicilian language and Aragonese language
Arancini
Arancini (arancino), also known as arancine (arancina), are Italian rice balls that are stuffed, coated with breadcrumbs and deep-fried.
See Sicilian language and Arancini
Arba Sicula
Arba Sicula (Sicilian: Sicilian Dawn) is a not-for-profit international society whose main objective is the preservation and promotion of the Sicilian language and culture.
See Sicilian language and Arba Sicula
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
See Sicilian language and Argentina
Associated University Presses
Associated University Presses (AUP) was a publishing company based in the United States, formed and operated as a consortium of several American university presses.
See Sicilian language and Associated University Presses
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
See Sicilian language and Australia
Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.
See Sicilian language and Austrian Empire
Austrians
Austrians (Österreicher) are the citizens and nationals of Austria.
See Sicilian language and Austrians
Auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb (abbreviated) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc.
See Sicilian language and Auxiliary verb
Baccagghju
Baccagghju (or baccaglio) is a cant based on Sicilian and Calabrian dialects used by members of Cosa Nostra and the 'Ndrangheta, the criminal organization operating in Calabria (Southern Italy). Sicilian language and Baccagghju are italo-Dalmatian languages and languages of Calabria.
See Sicilian language and Baccagghju
Bari
Bari (Bare; Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy.
See Sicilian language and Bari
Bazaar
A bazaar or souk is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, especially in the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa and South Asia.
See Sicilian language and Bazaar
Benevento
Benevento (Beneviento) is a city and comune (municipality) of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, northeast of Naples.
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Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
See Sicilian language and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Bova, Calabria
Bova (Calabrian Greek: Χώρα τουΒούα, romanized: Chòra tu Vùa; Calabrian: Vùa; translit) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about southeast of Reggio.
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Bronte, Sicily
Bronte (Brontë) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania, in Sicily, southern Italy.
See Sicilian language and Bronte, Sicily
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
See Sicilian language and Brooklyn
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.
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Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
See Sicilian language and Byzantine Empire
Cademia Siciliana
Cademia Siciliana (Sicilian Academy) is a transnational non-profit organization founded in 2016 by a group of Sicilian language academics, activists, researchers, and students with the mission to promote the Sicilian language through education, research, and activism.
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Calabria
Calabria is a region in southern Italy.
See Sicilian language and Calabria
Calicotome
Calicotome is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.
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Caltagirone
Caltagirone (Cartaggiruni or Caltaggiruni; Calata Hieronis) is an inland city and municipality (comune) in the Metropolitan City of Catania, on the island (and region) of Sicily, Southern Italy, about southwest of Catania.
See Sicilian language and Caltagirone
Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta (Nissa or Cartanissetta) is a comune (municipality) in the central interior of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the province of Caltanissetta.
See Sicilian language and Caltanissetta
Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
See Sicilian language and Canada
Canestrato
Canestrato is a hard cheese from the Italian regions of Basilicata, Apulia, Sicily, and Abruzzo, made from a mixture of sheep milk and goat milk.
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Cannoli
Cannoli is a Sicilian pastry consisting of a tube-shaped shell of fried pastry dough, filled with a sweet, creamy filling containing ricotta cheese.
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Capetian House of Anjou
The Capetian House of Anjou, or House of Anjou-Sicily, or House of Anjou-Naples was a royal house and cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.
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Cassata
Cassata or cassata siciliana is a traditional cake from the Sicily region of Italy.
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Catalan language
Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.
See Sicilian language and Catalan language
Catania
Catania (Sicilian and) is the second-largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population.
See Sicilian language and Catania
Catholic Monarchs of Spain
The Catholic Monarchs were Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, whose marriage and joint rule marked the de facto unification of Spain.
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Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani
The Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani (Center for Sicilian Philological and Linguistic Studies; CSFLS) is a non-profit organization which aims to promote the studies of ancient and modern Sicilian.
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Circumflex
The circumflex because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
See Sicilian language and Circumflex
Cirneco dell'Etna
The Cirneco dell'Etna is an Italian breed of hunting dog from the Mediterranean island of Sicily.
See Sicilian language and Cirneco dell'Etna
City-state
A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory.
See Sicilian language and City-state
Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.
See Sicilian language and Commedia dell'arte
Constantinople
Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
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Contraction (grammar)
A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.
See Sicilian language and Contraction (grammar)
Cosca
A cosca (pl. cosche in Italian and coschi in Sicilian), in Sicily, is a clan or Sicilian Mafia crime family led by a capo.
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Crown of Aragon
The Crown of AragonCorona d'Aragón;Corona d'Aragó,;Corona de Aragón;Corona Aragonum.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
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De vulgari eloquentia
De vulgari eloquentia ("On eloquence in the vernacular") is the title of a Latin essay by Dante Alighieri.
See Sicilian language and De vulgari eloquentia
Dental consonant
A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.
See Sicilian language and Dental consonant
Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
See Sicilian language and Dialect
Dialectology
Dialectology (from Greek διάλεκτος, dialektos, "talk, dialect"; and -λογία, -logia) is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages.
See Sicilian language and Dialectology
Digraph (orthography)
A digraph or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
See Sicilian language and Digraph (orthography)
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
See Sicilian language and Egypt
Elymians
The Elymians (Elymī) were an ancient tribal people who inhabited the western part of Sicily during the Bronze Age and Classical antiquity.
See Sicilian language and Elymians
Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.
See Sicilian language and Ethnologue
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Expulsion of the Jews from Sicily
The expulsion of the Jews from Sicily began in 1493 when the Spanish Inquisition reached the island of Sicily and its population of more than 30,000 Jews.
See Sicilian language and Expulsion of the Jews from Sicily
Extreme Southern Italian
The Extreme Southern ItalianAccording to the classification of Giovan Battista Pellegrini, see dialects are a set of languages spoken in Salento, Calabria, Sicily and southern Cilento with common phonetic and syntactic characteristics such as to constitute a single group.
See Sicilian language and Extreme Southern Italian
Fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
See Sicilian language and Fascism
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II (German: Friedrich; Italian: Federico; Latin: Fridericus; 26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225.
See Sicilian language and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
See Sicilian language and French language
Fricative
A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
See Sicilian language and Fricative
Gaetano Cipolla
Gaetano Cipolla is a retired professor of Italian and Chairman of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at St. John's University in New York City.
See Sicilian language and Gaetano Cipolla
Gallo-Italic languages
The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy: Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol.
See Sicilian language and Gallo-Italic languages
Gallo-Italic of Sicily
Gallo-Italic of Sicily, (Gallo-italico di Sicilia) also known as the Siculo-Lombard dialects, (Dialetti siculo-lombardi) is a group of Gallo-Italic languages found in about 15 isolated communities of central eastern Sicily. Sicilian language and Gallo-Italic of Sicily are languages of Sicily.
See Sicilian language and Gallo-Italic of Sicily
Gaulish
Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire.
See Sicilian language and Gaulish
Gemination
In phonetics and phonology, gemination (from Latin 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant.
See Sicilian language and Gemination
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
See Sicilian language and Germanic languages
Giovanni Meli
Giovanni Meli (4 March 1740 – 20 December 1815) was an Italian poet.
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Giuseppe Pitrè
Giuseppe Pitrè (22 December 184110 April 1916) was an Italian folklorist, medical doctor, professor, and senator for Sicily.
See Sicilian language and Giuseppe Pitrè
Gothic language
Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths.
See Sicilian language and Gothic language
Grammichele
Grammichele (Grammicheli, Greek: Echetle (meaning "plowshare"); Latin: Echetla, Ochula; Medieval: Occhiolà) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania in Sicily, southern Italy.
See Sicilian language and Grammichele
Gravesend, Brooklyn
Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.
See Sicilian language and Gravesend, Brooklyn
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
See Sicilian language and Greeks
Griko language
Griko (endonym: /Γκρίκο), sometimes spelled Grico, is one of the two dialects of Italiot Greek (the other being Calabrian Greek or Grecanico), spoken by Griko people in Salento, province of Lecce, Italy. Sicilian language and Griko language are languages of Apulia.
See Sicilian language and Griko language
Hail Mary
The Hail Mary (Ave Maria) or Angelical salutation is a traditional Catholic prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus.
See Sicilian language and Hail Mary
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.
See Sicilian language and Hamilton, Ontario
Harlequin
Harlequin (italics,; Arlechin) is the best-known of the comic servant characters (Zanni) from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo.
See Sicilian language and Harlequin
Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
See Sicilian language and Hebrew language
Hippocrene Books
Hippocrene Books is an independent US publishing press located at 171 Madison Avenue, New York City, NY 10016.
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Hohenstaufen
The Hohenstaufen dynasty, also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254.
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House of Bourbon
The House of Bourbon (also) is a dynasty that originated in the Kingdom of France as a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France.
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Ifriqiya
Ifriqiya, also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna (المغرب الأدنى), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (roughly western Libya).
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Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Influence of Arabic on other languages
Arabic has had a great influence on other languages, especially in vocabulary.
See Sicilian language and Influence of Arabic on other languages
Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Sicilian language and italian language are italo-Dalmatian languages and languages of Sicily.
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Italian Parliament
The Italian Parliament (Parlamento italiano) is the national parliament of the Italian Republic.
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Italians
Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.
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Italic languages
The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.
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Italic peoples
The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy.
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Italo-Dalmatian languages
The Italo-Dalmatian languages, or Central Romance languages, are a group of Romance languages spoken in Italy, Corsica (France), and formerly in Dalmatia (Croatia).
See Sicilian language and Italo-Dalmatian languages
Italo-Western languages
Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Jew's harp
The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Justinian I
Justinian I (Iūstīniānus,; Ioustinianós,; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.
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La Terra Trema
La Terra Trema ("The Earth Trembles") is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed, co-written, and produced by Luchino Visconti.
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Labial consonant
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Sicilian language and Latin are Subject–object–verb languages.
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Latin Library
The Latin Library is a website that collects public domain Latin texts.
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Latino-Faliscan languages
The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family.
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Lenition
In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous.
See Sicilian language and Lenition
Ligurian language
Ligurian (endonym: lìgure) or Genoese (endonym: zeneise or zeneize) is a Gallo-Italic language spoken primarily in the territories of the former Republic of Genoa, now comprising the area of Liguria in Northern Italy, parts of the Mediterranean coastal zone of France, Monaco (where it is called Monégasque), the village of Bonifacio in Corsica, and in the villages of Carloforte on San Pietro Island and Calasetta on Sant'Antioco Island off the coast of southwestern Sardinia.
See Sicilian language and Ligurian language
Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
See Sicilian language and Lingua franca
Literary language
Literary language is the form (register) of a language used when writing in a formal, academic, or particularly polite tone; when speaking or writing in such a tone, it can also be known as formal language.
See Sicilian language and Literary language
Lithuanian language
Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Locri
Locri is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy.
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Lombard language
The Lombard language (native name: lombard,Classical Milanese orthography, and. lumbard,Ticinese orthography. lumbartModern Western orthography and Classical Cremish Orthography. or lombart,Eastern unified orthography. depending on the orthography; pronunciation) belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages and is characterized by a Celtic linguistic substratum and a Lombardic linguistic superstratum and is a cluster of homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland, including most of Lombardy and some areas of the neighbouring regions, notably the far eastern side of Piedmont and the extreme western side of Trentino, and in Switzerland in the cantons of Ticino and Graubünden.
See Sicilian language and Lombard language
Lombards
The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Lord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer, also known by its incipit Our Father (Pater Noster), is a central Christian prayer that Jesus taught as the way to pray.
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Louis Lucien Bonaparte
Louis Lucien Bonaparte (4 January 1813 – 3 November 1891) was a French philologist.
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Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.
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Madrid
Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.
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Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.
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Maltese language
Maltese (Malti, also L-Ilsien Malti or Lingwa Maltija) is a Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata. Sicilian language and Maltese language are languages of Sicily and Subject–object–verb languages.
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Manouba University
Manouba University is a public university in Manouba, Tunisia.
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Margaret of Navarre
Margaret of Navarre (Marguerite, Margarita, Margherita) (c. 1135 – 12 August 1183) was Queen of Sicily as the wife of William I (1154–1166) and the regent during the minority of her son, William II.
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Medieval Greek
Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek, Byzantine Greek, or Romaic) is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical antiquity in the 5th–6th centuries and the end of the Middle Ages, conventionally dated to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Sicilian language and Medieval Greek are languages of Sicily.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
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Messina
Messina (Missina) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina.
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Metropolitan City of Catania
The Metropolitan City of Catania (città metropolitana di Catania) is a metropolitan city in Sicily, southern Italy.
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Metropolitan City of Messina
The Metropolitan City of Messina (città metropolitana di Messina) is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy.
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Metropolitan City of Palermo
The Metropolitan City of Palermo (città metropolitana di Palermo; citati metrupulitana di Palermu) is a metropolitan city in Sicily, Italy.
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Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria
Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (città metropolitana di Reggio Calabria) is an area of local government at the level of metropolitan city in the Calabria region of Italy.
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Minority language
A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory.
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
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Morus (plant)
Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of 19 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.
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Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.
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Muscat of Alexandria
Muscat of Alexandria is a white wine grape that is a member of the Muscat family of Vitis vinifera.
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Muslim conquest of Sicily
The Muslim conquest of Sicily began in June 827 and lasted until 902, when the last major Byzantine stronghold on the island, Taormina, fell.
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Muslim Sicily
The island of SicilyIn Arabic, the island was known as.
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Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
See Sicilian language and Nasal consonant
Neapolitan language
Neapolitan (autonym: ('o n)napulitano; napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in Naples and most of continental Southern Italy. Sicilian language and Neapolitan language are italo-Dalmatian languages, languages of Apulia and languages of Calabria.
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New Holland Publishers
New Holland Publishers is an Australian and New Zealand-based international publisher of non-fiction books, founded in 1955.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nicosia, Sicily
Nicosia (Gallo-Italic of Sicily: Nẹcọscia; Nicusìa) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Enna, in the Italian region of Sicily.
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Nino Martoglio
Nino Martoglio (Belpasso, Paternò, 3 December 1870 — Catania, 15 September 1921) was an Italian writer, publisher, journalist and producer of theatrical works.
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Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.
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Northern Italy
Northern Italy (Italia settentrionale, label, label) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of Italy.
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Novara di Sicilia
Novara di Sicilia (Gallo-Italic of Sicily: Nuè; Sicilian: Nuvara) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region of Sicily, located about east of Palermo and some southwest of Messina.
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Occitan language
Occitan (occitan), also known as (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
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Old High German
Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.
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Old Occitan
Old Occitan (Modern Occitan, occità antic), also called Old Provençal, was the earliest form of the Occitano-Romance languages, as attested in writings dating from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries.
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Open syllable lengthening
Open syllable lengthening, in linguistics, is the process by which short vowels become long in an open syllable.
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Opera dei Pupi
The Opera dei Pupi (opra î pupi in Palermo, opira î pupi in Catania; "Opera of the Puppets") is a marionette theatrical representation of Frankish romantic poems traditionally performed in Sicily, Italy.
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Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.
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Ostrogoths
The Ostrogoths (Ostrogothi, Austrogothi) were a Roman-era Germanic people.
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Ottawa
Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.
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Palatal consonant
Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).
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Palermo
Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.
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Pantelleria
Pantelleria (Sicilian: Pantiḍḍirìa), known in ancient times as Cossyra or Cossura, is an Italian island and comune in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, southwest of Sicily and east of the Tunisian coast.
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Pantesco dialect
Pantesco is the Sicilian dialect of the island of Pantelleria between Sicily and Tunisia. Sicilian language and Pantesco dialect are italo-Dalmatian languages.
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Paternò
Paternò (Patennò) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania, in the Italian region of Sicily.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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Petrarch
Francis Petrarch (20 July 1304 – 19 July 1374; Franciscus Petrarcha; modern Francesco Petrarca), born Francesco di Petracco, was a scholar from Arezzo and poet of the early Italian Renaissance and one of the earliest humanists.
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Phoenicia
Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
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Piacenza
Piacenza (Piaṡëinsa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province.
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Piazza Armerina
Piazza Armerina (Gallo-Italic of Sicily: Ciazza; Sicilian: Chiazza) is a comune in the province of Enna of the autonomous island region of Sicily, southern Italy.
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Pizzino
Pizzino (plural as pizzini) is an Italian language word derived from the Sicilian language equivalent pizzinu meaning "small piece of paper".
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Pizzo (mafia)
The pizzo is protection money paid to the Mafia often in the form of a forced transfer of money resulting from extortion.
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Plosive
In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
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Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
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Postalveolar consonant
Postalveolar (post-alveolar) consonants are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
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Pre-Indo-European languages
The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia Minor, Ancient Iran and Southern Asia before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages.
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Principality
A principality (or sometimes princedom) can either be a monarchical feudatory or a sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a regnant-monarch with the title of prince and/or princess, or by a monarch with another title considered to fall under the generic meaning of the term prince.
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Principality of Salerno
The Principality of Salerno (Principatus Salerni.) was a medieval Southern Italian state, formed in 851 out of the Principality of Benevento after a decade-long civil war.
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Province of Agrigento
The province of Agrigento (provincia di Agrigento; pruvincia di Girgenti) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, Italy, situated on its south-western coast.
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Province of Caltanissetta
The province of Caltanissetta (provincia di Caltanissetta; pruvincia di Nissa or pruvincia di Cartanissetta; officially libero consorzio comunale di Caltanissetta) is a province in the southern part of Sicily, Italy.
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Province of Enna
The province of Enna (provincia di Enna; Sicilian: pruvincia di Enna; officially libero consorzio comunale di Enna) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, Italy.
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Province of Ragusa
The province of Ragusa (provincia di Ragusa; Sicilian: pruvincia 'i Rausa) was a province in the autonomous region of Sicily, Italy, located in the southeast of the island.
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Province of Reggio Calabria
The province of Reggio Calabria (provincia di Reggio Calabria) was a province in the Calabria region of Italy.
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Province of Syracuse
The province of Syracuse (provincia di Siracusa; pruvincia di Sarausa) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, Italy.
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Pulcinella
Pulcinella (Pulecenella) is a classical character that originated in commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry.
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Punic people
The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia to the Western Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age.
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Randazzo
Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. Randazzo (Rannazzu) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy.
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Razor clam
Razor clam is a common name for long, narrow, saltwater clams (which resemble a closed straight razor in shape), including.
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Reggio Calabria
Reggio di Calabria (Riggiu; Rìji), commonly and officially referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the largest city in Calabria as well as the seat of the Regional Council of Calabria.
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Regional Italian
Regional Italian (italiano regionale) is any regional"Regional" in the broad sense of the word; not to be confused with the Italian endonym, for Italy's administrative units.
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Retroflex consonant
A retroflex, apico-domal, or cacuminal consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.
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Rhotacism
Rhotacism or rhotacization is a sound change that converts one consonant (usually a voiced alveolar consonant:,,, or) to a rhotic consonant in a certain environment.
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Robert Guiscard
Robert "Guiscard" de Hauteville, sometimes Robert "the Guiscard" (Modern; – 17 July 1085), was a Norman adventurer remembered for his conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century.
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Roger I of Sicily
Roger I (Ruggero; Rujār; Ruġġieru; Norse: Rogierr; – 22 June 1101), nicknamed “Roger Bosso” and “Grand Count Roger”, was a Norman nobleman who became the first Grand Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101.
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Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Rosarno
Rosarno is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region of Calabria.
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Saffron
Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the "saffron crocus".
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Salve Regina
The "Salve Regina" (meaning "Hail Queen"), also known as the "Hail Holy Queen", is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church.
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San Fratello
San Fratello (Gallo-Italic: San Frareau, Sicilian: Santu Frateddu, Greek and Latin: Apollonia, Medieval Latin Castrum S. Philadelphi), formerly San Filadelfo, is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Sicilian language and Sanskrit are Subject–object–verb languages.
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Saracen
German woodcut depicting Saracens Saracen was a term used both in Greek and Latin writings between the 5th and 15th centuries to refer to the people who lived in and near what was designated by the Romans as Arabia Petraea and Arabia Deserta.
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Scilla, Calabria
Scilla (U Scigghiu) is a town and comune in Calabria, Italy, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria.
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Sicani
The Sicani or Sicanians were one of three ancient peoples of Sicily present at the time of Phoenician and Greek colonization. Sicilian language and Sicani are languages of Sicily.
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Sicels
The Sicels (Sicelī or Siculī) were an Indo-European tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily, their namesake, during the Iron Age.
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Sicilia (Roman province)
Sicilia was the first province acquired by the Roman Republic, encompassing the island of Sicily.
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Sicilian Americans
Sicilian Americans (siculo-americani; sìculu-miricani) are Italian Americans who are fully or partially of Sicilian descent, whose ancestors were Sicilians who emigrated to United States during the Italian diaspora, or Sicilian-born people in U.S. They are a large ethnic group in the United States.
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Sicilian Regional Assembly
The Sicilian Regional Assembly is the legislative body of Sicily.
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Sicilian School
The Sicilian School was a small community of Sicilian and mainland Italian poets gathered around Frederick II, most of them belonging to his imperial court in Palermo.
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Sicilian Vespers
The Sicilian Vespers (Vespri siciliani; Vespiri siciliani) was a successful rebellion on the island of Sicily that broke out at Easter 1282 against the rule of the French-born king Charles I of Anjou, who had ruled the Kingdom of Sicily since 1266.
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Sicilians
The Sicilians (Siciliani), or Sicilian people, are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group who are indigenous to the island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
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Sicily (theme)
Sicily (θέμα Σικελίας, Thema Sikelias) was a Byzantine province (theme) existing from the late 7th to the 10th century, encompassing the islands of Sicily and Malta, and the region of Calabria in the Italian mainland.
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Siculo-Arabic
Siculo-Arabic or Sicilian Arabic (al-lahja l-ʿarabiyya ṣ-ṣiqilliyya) is the term used for varieties of Arabic that were spoken in the Emirate of Sicily (which included Malta) from the 9th century, persisting under the subsequent Norman rule until the 13th century. Sicilian language and Siculo-Arabic are languages of Sicily.
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Southern Italy
Southern Italy (Sud Italia,, or Italia meridionale,; 'o Sudde; Italia dû Suddi), also known as Meridione or Mezzogiorno (Miezojuorno; Menzujornu), is a macroregion of Italy consisting of its southern regions.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Sperlinga
Sperlinga is a comune in the province of Enna, in the central part of the island of Sicily, in southern Italy.
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Stidda
The paren) is a Sicilian and Maltese Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society centered in the central-southern part of Sicily and Malta. Members are known as stiddari or stiddaroli. It is most active in the rural parts of southern Sicily and Malta and is a rival to the Cosa Nostra, originating as a dissident offshoot group of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.
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Swabians
Swabians (Schwaben, singular Schwabe) are a Germanic-speaking people who are native to the ethnocultural and linguistic region of Swabia, which is now mostly divided between the modern states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, in southwestern Germany.
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Syntactic gemination
Syntactic gemination, or syntactic doubling, is an external sandhi phenomenon in Italian, other Romance languages spoken in Italy, and Finnish.
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Tap and flap consonants
In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.
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Tübingen
Tübingen (Dibenga) is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Trapani
Trapani (Tràpani) is a city and municipality (comune) on the west coast of Sicily, in Italy.
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Trigraph (orthography)
A trigraph digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double', and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write, draw, paint, etc.')) is a group of three characters used to represent a single sound or a combination of sounds that does not correspond to the written letters combined.
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Trill consonant
In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.
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Troubadour
A troubadour (trobador archaically: -->) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350).
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Tuscan dialect
Tuscan (dialetto toscano; label) is a set of Italo-Dalmatian varieties of Romance spoken in Tuscany, Corsica, and Sardinia.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
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UNESCO Courier
UNESCO Courier is the main magazine published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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Unification of Italy
The unification of Italy (Unità d'Italia), also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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University of Catania
The University of Catania (Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily.
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University of Palermo
The University of Palermo (Università degli Studi di Palermo) is a university located in Palermo, Italy, and founded in 1806.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.
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Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
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Viceroy
A viceroy is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.
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Vocabolario siciliano
The "Vocabolario siciliano" is a five-volume lexicographic work on the Sicilian language by Giorgio Piccitto, Salvatore Tropea, and Salvatore Carmelo Trovato.
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Vowel reduction
In phonetics, vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels as a result of changes in stress, sonority, duration, loudness, articulation, or position in the word (e.g. for the Creek language), and which are perceived as "weakening".
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.
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Western New York
Western New York (WNY) is the westernmost region of the U.S. state of New York.
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William II of Sicily
William II (December 115311 November 1189), called the Good, was king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Italo-Dalmatian languages
- Baccagghju
- Castelmezzano dialect
- Corsican language
- Dalmatian language
- Istriot language
- Italian language
- Italo-Dalmatian languages
- Languages of Calabria
- Neapolitan language
- Pantesco dialect
- Sicilian language
- Venedic language
Languages of Apulia
- Barese dialect
- Faetar language
- Greek language
- Griko language
- Italiot Greek
- Neapolitan language
- Sicilian language
- Tarantino dialect
Languages of Calabria
- Arbëresh language
- Baccagghju
- Calabrian Greek
- Greek language
- Italiot Greek
- Languages of Calabria
- Neapolitan language
- Sicilian language
- Southern Italian Koiné
Languages of Sicily
- Albanian language
- Ancient Greek
- Arabic
- Arbëresh language
- Berber languages
- Elymian language
- Gallo-Italic of Sicily
- Greek language
- Italian language
- Judeo-Arabic dialects
- Koine Greek
- Late Latin
- Maghrebi Arabic
- Maltese language
- Medieval Greek
- Mediterranean Lingua Franca
- Norman language
- Old Norman
- Phoenician language
- Punic language
- Sicani
- Sicilian language
- Siculo-Arabic
- Southern Italian Koiné
References
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