Learn Sicilian: Common Words & Phrases In Sicilian

[@LearnSicilian]

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[@ggrocks6566]

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[@just1frosty516]

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[@ThatsMyStuffYouBledOnTrevor]

You better believe this lesson is authentic Sicilian - they teach you “Let’s go, I’m hungry” before “Hello”

[@LearnSicilian]

😂😂😂😂

[@andyfritter]

Family is from Palermo, I really want to visit someday and be able to speak with my grandmother in her native tongue

[@thetriangleisland7931]

hello i am from sicily, sicily is a great land. There is so many monuments but his colture and the food is the best of sicily

[@beanzy1891]

Same my grandma getting old and when I was younger I promise her I would take her to Sicily

[@lindacaldwell6251]

My family is from Palermo and didn't say lets go this way. We said yaa-mo. Or that's what it sounds like!

[@trioguitar]

@@lindacaldwell6251 As someone else posted: nni jemu is also used (1st person plural conjugation of jiri - to go). Amunninni is very much an imperative form of the verb, and could almost be translated as: "Let's get the hell outta here!"

[@samuthemapper600]

im from italy but not sicily

[@robmalloy2879]

My mama spoke only Sicilian until she went to school and learned English, but she married an American who only spoke English, and she did not teach us her language. I would love to learn it! She would switch to Sicilian without realizing it whenever she felt a strong emotion (loving, sad, angry, etc.).

[@annarchy665]

My grandparent's would fly off the handle in sicilian. As if we didn't figure our what they were saying after a while. 😆

[@y.m.i.n.6538]

It is because the sicilian people are the most beautiful in the world 🌎 ❤

[@Bobbymorris-g3h]

Proud American scicillian

[@clare5one]

I was recently in Silicy, beautiful! I can understand your dialect. I am an American by birth, but my heart belongs to Napoli & Roma.

[@LearnSicilian]

Thanks for watching!

[@clare5one]

What is the meaning if the three legged woman on the Sicilian coat of arms?

[@LearnSicilian]

Hi there! A simple modern interpretation of the three legs represents the triangular shape of Sicily. But, this understanding is incomplete. This shape is based off the Triskelion, an ancient European symbol. The Triskelion can be found in almost every European culture (see the flag of Isle of Man). People first attributed the creation of the symbol to the Celtic culture, but it is even older than that, more likely Neolithic/Aryan. 3 is an important number to ancient Europeans. This influence can be seen in modern day Christianity with life/death/rebirth, or father/son/holy spirit. But this concept came far before Christianity. And so one of the first representations of this concept can be seen some 5,000 years ago in the form of the Triskelion or "3 legs". Representing all things: past/present/future, creation/preservation/destruction, sprit/mind/body, land/sea/sky. It represents all things. The "spiral" of life.

[@danilaird8360]

You aren't American by blood. You are what your ancestors are. I am half Italian and half Scot-Irish. My name says so... Laird. Scot. My grandfather's name Budassi: Italian. Lots of Italian in my family especially that I knew and hung around so I go for that side a bit more but I also love and am proud to be Scottish- Irish. Everyone in the USA is European. Nobody is American. American is a citizenship because you were born in America ( which we call the US anyways.) Nobody is truly American by blood.

[@Sandra1beauty]

Napoli and Roma have their own languages.

[@angelacorsino3161]

So excited to find this. My family is from Villasmundo and I would love to go. Shame I didn't try to learn sooner.

[@jorgelugo9974]

Great VIDEO!!!!It is important to me after I learn Italian I will learn Sicilian.

[@LearnSicilian]

perfect :)

[@zafusca]

why Italy language called Italian why not latin instead cuz the was born.and speaking around.italy

[@changolini]

Brings back many memories of my old neighbors that were sicilian

[@LearnSicilian]

:D

[@deja5375]

Us Sicilians are the best 😌

[@changolini]

@@deja5375 especially the food 🔥🔥🔥

[@spideraxis]

Love it! I was raised with Sicilian.

[@joannemaguuire9664]

My grandmother who was Sicilian lived with us so I heard Sicilian every day of my life until she died. Brings back alot of memories. Only a few words I didn't know.

[@antoninoscro1834]

​@@joannemaguuire9664Tò nanna si Ca fu na vera Siciliana!Un Sicilianu parra Sulu u SICILIANU cu i so figghi e cu i Siciliani!

[@galinapirogova6118]

Thank you very much! This lessons it is important for me I learn a maltese.

[@torresdestinya82]

These are fairly easy for me to say it’s the remembering everything that’s a little hard

[@paulgutman5811]

I'm not Sicilian or Sicilian-American, but I like the sound of Sicilian and at the risk of opening a can of worms, I'm glad to hear Sicilian in contexts other than the stereotypical ones shown in movies on TV. I think The Godfather is a good movie, for example, but I also find it cringe worthy that many people think Sicilian is spoken only by crime bosses. It's refreshing to see Sicilian promoted as a language spoken by ordinary people. "Era la vo! Sunuzzu veni!" (Sicilian lullaby.)

[@confidentsuccessfulwomen]

Sa benedica (hello) is used when addressing your elders for example your grandparents. I used to greet my grandparents that way as a sign of respect.

[@gionny843]

Vossia benedica

[@robertmaimone8733]

I'm born in USA, but my heart belongs to Taramino. My grandparents were born there!

[@masterjunky863]

I'm born in the north but I'm half Sicilian

[@antoninoscro1834]

Taormina?

[@A_Anitmated_Idiot]

This video is very useful. But I would like to know what dialect of Sicilian this is? As Sicilian (at least from what I have researched) has A TON of dialects that can be pretty different. And as I said very useful for learning the basic words of Sicilian! Keep up uploading about the amazing language and culture of Sicily!

[@Nico-oj5oj]

Stu vidìu è beddhru assai. Pirò pû salutu putivi usari la furma di pitrè, salutamu.

[@y.m.i.n.6538]

I love sicillians you are in my heart in my blood ❤

[@_martymoon96_]

Ca' bellu stu videu!!!❤❤❤ A sicilia ndu' cori!!!❤❤❤ Saluti dalla Sicilia!❤

[@VickyDaJuice]

This is great!

[@LearnSicilian]

Thanks! :) Keep an eye out for a new video coming VERY soon!

[@jennaland]

Is this close to Messina dialect? Thanks!

[@v4mpyrzx]

I don't know

[@MurrayEstes]

Live in Hawaii but where is my heart? San Vito Lo Capo and Capaci - actually anywhere in SIcilia! Last two years I have spent two months there. Aloha, Konaboyz Honolulu Hawaii Surfing CPA

[@LearnSicilian]

San Vito Lo Capo is very beautiful! I have always wanted to go to Hawaii!!! Maybe one day :o) Thanks for watching!

[@ancilu3901]

I still think Sicily should be its own Country❤️

[@michaelm-bs2er]

Why?

[@evandxvies]

@@michaelm-bs2er doesn't exactly get treated tidy by the North

[@michaelm-bs2er]

@@evandxvies Politicians everywhere are scumbags. The current president of Italy is a Sicilian. Why are we still complaining, still not able to find solutions for our problems? Sicily doesn't need to secede. Sicily needs jobs.

[@masterjunky863]

Sicily is Italian since millennia ago.

[@alssla3581]

@@masterjunky863 What? Italy annexed the Kingdom of Sicily about 150 years ago. You are just making up stuff.

[@yvngemmanuel]

My grandparents are from sicily and I understand a little and I want to speak better to communicate better

[@Plata-ori-plumbu]

I'm Romanian so I pretty much speak Sicilian: "Nostru, vostru, cu, omul, mortul, doctorul, dentistul, corpul, capul, americanul," etc. We have most the same words.

[@michaelm-bs2er]

It's amazing to see how similar Romanian is to the other Latin languages after being separated for so long. May I ask? Do the majority of Romanians feel a sense of Latin identity or do they prefer to connect themselves to other groups like the Dacians?

[@pow3redthebest]

Some words are similar but as a Sicilian I only understand very few Romanian words 😅

[@Plata-ori-plumbu]

@@michaelm-bs2er Some Romanians do, but not the majority. After all, we speak the Roman's language. The Dacians faded out of history.

[@michaelm-bs2er]

@@Plata-ori-plumbu Thank you for responding. I hope you don't mind me asking this as well. Do the Romanians sometimes as Vlachs? Or is solely for the Aromanians? Is the term 'Vlach" offensive?

[@Plata-ori-plumbu]

@@michaelm-bs2er "Vlach" or as some Slavs call it "Wolohy" are just their terms for "Latin speaker." They call Italians the same thing sometimes. They refer to us Romanians especially, forgetting we were here since 106AD. They came into the Balkans in the 600s AD. We literally watched them settle around us.

[@franklewis2757]

How similar is Sicilian to Calabrese . I have family in Calabria and I wish to learn to speak their language but theres no recourses. I understand that theres different types of Calabrese my family is from a small town called Borgia . Would Sicilian be any thing similar to what they speak there ?

[@michaelm-bs2er]

Very similar but the Calabrians have a different accent.

[@pow3redthebest]

A Sicilian dialect is spoken in the province of Reggio Calabria, Central-North calabrese is kinda similar to Sicilian but you can clearly see the difference

[@michaelm-bs2er]

@Frank Lewis Do you know which part or province in Calabria your family is from? Overall I would say the Calabrians' accent is more conservative than the Sicilians.

[@trioguitar]

The dialect of Reggio is a dialect of the Sicilian language. Further North, their dialect is categorised as Neopolitan.

[@ЕвгенияН-з5г]

TI SALUTU ,SICILIA BEDDA !❤

[@recyclespinning9839]

I have a theory why Italians in USA have a hard time letting their kids keep the language. Italians learned both Italian and their dialect in Italy. But there kids get spoken to in dialect at home so if you happen to meet other Italians then they may have different dialect. Just a theory. PS , I am from Sicily but grew up in USA and went through this in my family. Luckily as I got older I learned a bit of " real" Italian, but love both ..

[@LearnSicilian]

Could be right!

[@iammissiemarie4302]

I think that could be part of it. I think a big part was because at least when my grand parents came here there was pressure to become Americanized. My grand mother was not allowed to go to school unless she spoke English. Her given name was Giuseppina and her twin was Bennedetta. Their teacher decided that they would be called Joan and Betty. I didn't know until I was well into adulthood what her real name was!

[@trioguitar]

What do you mean by "real Italian". There's Italian...then there's the Sicilian language. Two different languages.

[@recyclespinning9839]

@trioguitar I mean the Italian language that can be spoken everywhere in Italy. My comment was from my experience growing up in the USA. When I got together with other Italian families from other regions here in USA, we found out we spoke differently because of dialects. The parents however spoke 2 languages, Italian, the specific dialect, and actually 3 languages as most had learned American English language after a couple years living in USA. Hope that clears up my comment. PS , my friends Italian parents were actually able to switch back and forth between these 3 languages depending on who they spoke with. 1. Italian if speaking to other Italians from other regions, 2. Dialect when speaking with those from their same region , 3. American English, when speaking to native born Americans, was something to see. Me personally I learned all 3 also, but obviously most fluent in American after living here most my life now. Just not enough practice in the Italian, and Sicilian languages.

[@Brahvooo]

is this Catania dialect by chance?

[@sahabuddin6754]

Nice bro♥️♥️♥️♥️🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

Most common phrase is, "We're Sicilian, not Italian"

[@alexh3158]

Lmao very true

[@samsscia]

My family is from Sciacca and our last name is Sciascia.

[@sagirozzo720]

Music?

[@ibrahimturkey6116]

How to say I want in Sicilian

[@roseguber3240]

Vogghiu..

[@recyclespinning9839]

Sa benadica, is hello 😁, but you are saying hello with respect. Like hello but asking for a blessing., usually say to some one you respectful to..😌

[@MichealLucania]

Grazzi pi nzignari â genti😊

[@LearnSicilian]

Thanks for watching!

[@DrinkYourNailPolish]

My family originates from Alcomo. This sounds familiar to what GG would say to us kids.

[@antoninoscro1834]

Alcamo

[@Calculus58]

The Sicilian u and a are similar to the Portuguese o and a

[@ludogalbiati]

1) Amuninni è palermitano o sicilia occ.; nella Sicilia orientale si dice : ni iemu o n'annamu; 2) In dialetto locale non si usa "bagno", ma gabinetto, che tradotto diventa : unn'è u cessu(o ciessu in palermitano); 3) Arricampati a palermo; nella zona orientale si dice arricogghiti; 4) Carusu è usato a Catania, siracusa,; Picciriddu a Messina; Picciotti a Palermo - Tutti indicano il termine ragazzo (miscati saura e opa) 5) Sà benedica, lo useranno in qualche paesino del palermitano

[@ianou1000]

Mt grand parents were speaking Sicilian from Tunisia, they said "gabinetto" too

[@trioguitar]

Dâ zona di Giarri- Ripostu/Mascali, usavamu tutti dui formi: carusu e picciriddu

[@LearnSicilian]

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[@cs5661]

You only have 2 videos?

[@LearnSicilian]

Just started 3 weeks ago, will be adding more videos soon! :)

[@cs5661]

Learn Sicilian great, I'll definitely be watching

[@SuperDSJGaming]

Learn Sicilian which dialect of Sicilian is being used in these videos?

[@LearnSicilian]

Hi Jared! We are from Enna, but we also try to incorporate words from Palermo as well! :o)

[@ciao1448]

My family if from caltanissetta

[@cuoresiciliano421]

❤

[@caitlinjoy6332]

Who else is here because of The Godfather? 🙋🏻‍♀️ It’s such a beautiful language.

[@Boeing727223]

Nun sacciu!

[@starmascidagaming496]

Ciao a tutti carusi

[@ellebon2445]

I am here for my novel. This is so hard

[@aurioladieuseul1017]

interestingly enough i'm here for the same reason lol

[@Burninhellscrootoob]

I remember at a party a goombas father telling me that i wasnt italian, i was greek for being Sicilian......when i told my dad, he wanted to punch the guy

[@antoninoscro1834]

Aiu pitittu!!!

[@SuperDSJGaming]

What dialect is spoken here? I'm trying to learn Palermo dialect.

[@andreaskarras8725]

The Agrigento dialect , he said .

[@cacuociolo91]

I'm from Palermo write a sentence in dialect

[@ILoveLanguages]

@@cacuociolo91 Greetings! My name is Andy from I love languages Channel. A non profit educational KZbin channel dedicated in documenting different languages/dialects of the world. I'm really interested on featuring your beautiful Sicilian language/dialect. I would like to create a video about it. If you are interested here are the things we need from you: Text and Audio for the ff: Numbers 1 to 10 Greetings & Phrases Any story / Sample text But in case you can translate this short story. That would be great! :D The Wren The wren used to have his nest in the car shed. Once the old ones had both flown out-they had wanted to get something to eat for their young-and had left the little ones all alone. After a while, Father Wren returns home. “What’s happened here?” he says. “Who harmed you, children? You are all terrified!” “Oh, Dad,” they say, “some big bogeyman came by just now. He looked so fierce and horrible! He stared into our nest with his big eyes. That scared us so!” “I see,” Father Wren says, “where did he go?” “Well,” they say, “he went down that way.” “Wait!” Father Wren says, “I’ll be after him. Don’t you worry now, children. I’ll get him.” Thereupon he flies after him. When he comes around the bend, it is the lion who is walking along there. But the wren is not afraid. He alights on the lion’s back and starts scolding him. “What business do you have coming to my house,” he says, “and terrifying my children?!” The lion pays no attention to it and keeps walking. That makes the little loud-mouth berate him even more fiercely. “You have no business being there, I tell you! And if you come back,” he says, “well, then you’ll see! I don’t really want to do it,” he says and finally lifts one of his legs, “but I’d break your back with my leg in a second!” Thereupon he flies back to his nest. “There you go, children,” he says, “I’ve taught that one a lesson. He won’t be back.” Kindly send it to my email address [e-mail] Looking forward! P.s.

[@SckMyBallsPls]

@@cacuociolo91 how do you pronouce thank you in sicilian? Please

[@cacuociolo91]

@@SckMyBallsPls There's no traduction for "thank you"", it's like Italian, "Grazie"

[@leonemarcobartolo]

Haiu cu l'h, èni verbu. :) Èni, no è. Sa binidica èni rivirinziali, non si traduci cu Hello! Supra a wiki in sicilianu putiti dari na taliata o cumpenniu linguìsticu cu standard scn, ridattu secunnu i pubblicazioni in lingua siciliana di Pirandello, Sciascia, Verga, Camilleri e tanti autri illustri littirati. Pi tuttu u restu un beddu travagghiu, grazzi assai!

[@trioguitar]

Grazzi a tia!

[@LusitanaShip]

Am sicilian

[@gionny843]

Arricampati a Messina si dice arricoghiti

[@trioguitar]

Macari 'n Catanisi si dici propia d'accussi!

[@astizzacafastracannariubummulu]

I'm hungry/aju pitittu. binirica

[@andreaskarras8725]

Aiu fami .

[@LocalYoutubeGuide]

molto importante in Sicilia 🧑🏻‍🍳

[@antoninoscro1834]

​@andreas pitittu un ti piaci?karras8725

[@starmascidagaming496]

Ca sungno😁

[@trioguitar]

Cca sugnu!

[@THETRUTHURTS-q5z]

In Palermo we say "Suca"

[@roccoriina8847]

No one speaks the dialect anymore.. only a few oldies in small villages..the young all speak proper Italian..yet I would say it's a language rather than dialect..plus the dialect my grandparents spoke has died out..words that are not used anymore..I could go on and on...they were from provincia Agrigento

[@whiskywithkiwi772]

Mi nni vaiu

[@Susan.I]

What language do today’s Sicilians speak in Sicily 2024.?

[@antoninoscro1834]

PARRAMU SICILIANU!

[@richardburriesci7723]

THIS IS NOT I REPEAT NOT THE SICILIAN OF DON VITO CORLEONE WHICH IS MY ANCESTORS AND THE MOST POPULATED REGION WESTERN SICILY WHICH IS PALERMO AND AGRIGENTO! MEZZOJUSO IS ONLY FIVE MILES FROM CORLEONE AND MANY THOUSANDS OF SICILIANS HAVE ROOTS IN THIS ARAB VILLAGE

[@johnmonterosso3100]

You're related to don vito corleone that is a fictional character

[@danilaird8360]

@@johnmonterosso3100 hahaha good one

[@RaDi0-HeAd]

Eastern Sicily is the most populated where 3 of the 4 largest cities are located: Catania, Messina, and Siracusa.

[@manitheman0806]

which arab village......there's Sicilian Dialects....this in one of many dialects

[@michaelm-bs2er]

@Richard Burriesci. Sii sceccu

[@Tm12589]

Arricampate! To me is reorganize yourself! Not!!!!!!

[@PeakyBlinder73]

Sick silly

[@MGBstudios]

How do you say “My love” in Sicilian to your wife? Safari is absolutely useless! 🤦🏻

[@danilaird8360]

Why is man made to sound like english masculine and woman made to sound like english feminine? some men are feminine and some women are masculine. You can't put masculine and feminine on one gender because it's wrong. There are exceptions. I am female but I am very masculine. I am butch lesbian. My cousin on the other hand is a male but he is very feminine and he is gay. You can't name people as male= masculine and female = feminine because it doesn't apply all of the time.

[@LearnSicilian]

The Sicilian root words for man and woman are older than the English words 'Masculine' and 'Feminine'. So they are not made to sound LIKE, the english words. The english words are influenced by these words and their lingual roots.

[@corinnegermanotta3590]

I assume this is due to the Latin roots because Sicilian was the first language to evolve out of Latin. I agree with you about the concepts of gender vs masculine/feminine.

[@cominghometorome811]

What you are is a complaining annoying feminine liberal go drink your soy latte and take your b.s. someplace else...so sick of you whining woke cupcakes!!!

[@Miami799]

Just cut the crap already and piss off with your pc nonsense. Nobody cares about your business.

[@DolceFioreRosa]

Keep it to yourself; If you don’t like it, watch another video, but don’t bring all of those personal/political issues into a language situation. At the end of the day, Romance languages are established as male and female, and that’s the way it is. We’re not looking to reinvent the wheel.

[@manaloola2018]

Ragusa! The picture is Ragusa Ibla, my grandparents hometown