There are plenty of Sicilian-language websites online, in fact there are more than there are for Sardinian which is much much much more different from standard Italian.
As far as how its written, see http://www.linguasiciliana.org/lsu.htm (lingua siciliana unificata).
There are more books available in Sicilian than there are in Sardinian as well, including a few translations of popular literature. Also, Sicilian is, along with Italian, a co-official language of the Sicilian autonomous region of Italy.
--node
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:44:07 +0200 (MEST), Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it wrote:
AFAIK, sicilian today has been blended a lot with Italian. The average sicilian hears Italian on television and writes in italian, not sicilian. I'm sure most of them have no idea of how Sicilian is written (I have no idea myself, but that doesn't count). It's not taught in schools, it's mostly oral tradition.
Alfio
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, James R. Johnson wrote:
Cool. How is Sicilian related to Italian and French?
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Williamson Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:21 PM To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Request for a new Wikipedia
Hi all,
The ISO 639 committee has *just* (literally) approved a code for the Sicilian language.
Sicilian has over 6 million speakers, and there is good internet connectivity.
I would like to request that scn: be created for Sicilian.
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