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Name: Sicilian

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Calabro-Sicilian; Sicilianu; Siculu

Spoken in: Italy

Number of speakers: 4,830,000 (2000) (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 5000000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 4832520 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: scn

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)

Parent Dialect Group: Italo-Dalmatian (lat-itd)

Child Dialects: Central Metafonetica (scn-cen) Messinese (scn-mes) Eastern Nonmetafonetica (scn-eas) Isole Eolie (scn-iso) Western Sicilian; Palermo; Trapani; Central-Western Agrigentino (scn-wes) Southern Calabro (scn-soc) Pantesco (scn-pan) Southeast Metafonetica (scn-sou)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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