On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Mark Williamson wrote:
There are plenty of Sicilian-language websites online
Are you sure? A google search of "veru beddu" (very beautiful) returns 5 results, searching for "ntrallazzu" returns 15 results, many of them in italian.
Also, Sicilian is, along with Italian, a co-official language of the Sicilian autonomous region of Italy.
It isn't. Sicily is an autonomous region, but the language is not officially recognized.
Alfio