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Sicilian

Italo-Dalmatian language spoken in Southern Italy
Intangible natural_language Q33973
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Summary

Sicilian is a natural language[1]. Sicilian draws 5,545 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #83 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Italy[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Named after: Sicily[5]
  • Subclass of: Italo-Romance[6]
  • Writing system: Latin script[7]
  • Commons category: Sicilian language[8]
  • Wikimedia language code: scn[9]
  • Has part(s): Salentino[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sicilian language[11]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 4,700,000[12]
  • Native label: Sicilianu[13]
  • UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[14]
  • Indigenous to: Sicily[15]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SCN[16], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133122700[17]
  • Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[18]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[19], subject–object–verb[20], syllabic language[21]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Sicilian-language films[22]
  • Category for music in this language: Category:Sicilian-language music[23]

Why It Matters

Sicilian has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Sicilian is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Arctic Circle System · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → Italo-Romance
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: Extreme Southern Italian"
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