The Sicilian Language (lu sicilianu)

This video is a language profile on the Sicilian language, which is spoken in Sicily (and a couple other places in southern Italy). I introduce the features of Sicilian through examples, side by side with Italian. I think you'll see that it's a distinct Italo-Romance language, while being generally similar to Standard Italian. Special thanks to Giacomo Messina for his Sicilian and Italian audio samples, suggestions, and feedback! And a great big thanks to all of you patrons: Aleksei Bogatov AmateurTextualCriticism Bennett Seacrist Brian King Bruce C Chris Meredith Chuck Davis Claudia Ramos Fiona de Visser Georgina Toland Irina Bruce Italy Made Easy Jacob Madsen John Moffat Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kirk Kirkpatrick KiwiBirdWiki M. Aizat A. Rahman Michael Cuomo Michael J Synnott Mody Nobbi Lampe-Strang Rosalind Resnick Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Vincent David Walter A Moore Wolfgang Egon Schroder Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Vanderpluym Aitona Al Alana Kalinowski Alex Tsigdinos Ali Muhammed Alshehri Alice Amittai Aviram Andrew Woods Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Ashley Dierolf Bartosz Czarnotta Ben Benjamin Tipton Brent Warner Bruce Ian Danton Bruce Stark Carl Luca Hofmann chris brown Chris Shifman contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Dan Haworth Darek David Golub Desmond Drew Diana Fulger Diane Young Dina Trageser Donald Tilley Doug Edward Wilson El Capitan Nico Elijah Double Eliza McCoole Emilia Bruns Eric Loewenthal fatimahl frederick shiels G Bot grace Gregory Ferree Grégoire Le Corre Guillaume Brodar Henrik Flyvbjerg Herr K Howard Clark Hugh AULT Ina Mwanda James and Amanda Soderling James Lillis JAMES ORR James Wraith Jay Bernard Jim McLaughlin JL Bumgarner John Gavin John Weiss Jonathan Hutchins Julie Sriken Kate Jensen Konrad Konstantin Bredyuk KW Larry Salas Laterunner Laura Morland Leah Meredith Lee Dedmon Leo Barudi Lissette Talledo Malandro Manuel Rosales Margaret Langendorf Mark Mark Judge Mark Kemp Martin Blackwell Merrick Bobb Merrick Bobb Michael Mersol-Barg Michael Regal MikAE Mike Frysinger Mohammed A. Abahussain Molly Fivian Nicholas Gentry Nicolas Elsishans Niro Oleksandr Ivanov Patriot Nurse Paul Shutler Peter Nikitin Peter Scollar Phil Franks piero Piri JAKAB VON SZENGELICE Ploshtinska polyudnica Raymond Thomas Roger Smith Roland Seuhs Ronald Brady Rosetta Stephens Scarecrow Repair Sheila Perryman SJWS Stefan Reichenberger Tara Pride Theophagous Thomas Chapel Thomas Gijsbers tomas o dathail Tony DeSantis Trevor Helminski Vinicius Marchezini Warren McKenzie William MacKenzie William O Beeman Yagub Alserkal Yeshar Hadi Yuriy Vrublevskiy Yuval Filmus Éric Martin Creative Commons images in this video: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h8xsffT7VL5ekSu1cTU0bFXRaiH6Chrm1MCcwNq_ElM/edit?usp=sharing