From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63112
Date: 2009-02-18
> From: Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...>It helps but an earlier version of the Wiki article stoked the confusion. This article seems to be more weighted toward the latter conclusion
> Subject: [tied] Sicilian "language"
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 3:53 PM
> --- 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