Sicilian "language"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

> I have read contradictory view re: Sicilian:
>
> 1. That it developed from a language similar to Sardo spoken until
> the Norman conquest and then was submerged by waves of settlers from
> the rest of Italy.
>
> 2. That there was no Romance language in Sicily until the Norman
> conquest and that Greek was the common language until it was swamped
> by settler from the rest of Italy.

Could this Wikipedia article (mainly dealing with the influences on
the vocabulary of Sicilian) be of some use?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_language

Best,
Francesco