Sicilian legends & traditions recounted in dialect by the elderly of the village of Sant'Ambrogio

[@cjohnson4342]

Please never take this video down. It actually brings tears to my eyes to hear my language spoken in the dialect of my grandparents. I listen to it often.

[@giannabella9183]

Me too ❤

[@TheNotBarkingDog]

Este destul de asemanator cu limba română! 😮 Și accentul seamănă.

[@dominicbriganti5710]

E cchi dialettu sicilianu parraünu i tó nonni?

[@cjacobsen99]

My father and mother come from Palermo and Agrigento respectively. These are my people!!! And I couldn't be more proud to see their vitality and Sicilian spirit!!!

[@CMT1995]

I've got grandparents from Mellili, my man. Hit me up with pride!

[@Pasquale-Ragone]

Vueee amico siciliano ❤️un saluto a tutti l'emittenti

[@stefanofranchini9416]

AFRICA

[@wildingboys7100]

I am Sicilian bless your heart

[@giannabella9183]

Me too . Same places ❤❤❤

[@vicki5472]

I grew up in Sicily till 9 years of age and then we came to Canada in the mid 60s. I’ve never lost the old Sicilian dialect but was saddened to see many Sicilians no longer speak it as I discovered on a visit there in 2004. Many except maybe in remote mountain villages speak only Italian. When I tried speaking Sicilian people understood but their response was Italian. I was saddened by that because it takes the sails out the Sicilian culture as I and my forefathers knew it. Tony

[@erporcoiddio9650]

They probably answered in italian because they wanted to look polite.

[@Sigridovski]

Exactly! It is SO sad. How can some not see this? I think the authorities and the lying media has something to do with this loss of language in Sicily. Maybe some who still speak it could go together and make a dictionary?

[@mghc8999]

@@Sigridovski 1) There are plenty of Sicilian dictionary. 2) Probably no one spoke sicilian because its considered rude. Here in Sicily you speak Sicilian when you're with your friends, when you're angry, when you're saying a joke... If I meet someone I don't know I won't start speaking sicilian.

[@Sigridovski]

@@mghc8999 Wow! That's INCREDIBLE information for an interested outsider like myself, because if you speak it when you are angry, when you joke and at home; this means it is really your mother tongue, the language you are most comfortable with. I wonder who told you not to speak it outside in the street or at the market? Somebody did not want you to have that language. They invalidated it until the Sicilians believed it. That is not nice. That is very bad. Imagine, it would be rude to speak your own mother tongue, that with which you can express yourself easily, without thinking.

[@cor-z8m]

The sad thing Vicki is that they do understand and they do speak it…the younger generation don’t wNt to be bothered to switch.

[@hananeb8312]

i am moroccan but love the conversation even if i didnt understand. so happy they look and talked, lovely.

[@JosephPeco-sy1gp]

Someday i will translate it,i m sicilian

[@cjohnson4342]

​@@JosephPeco-sy1gpI hope that you do, I can only understand some of it. My grandmother passed away in 1990 and I haven't heard the dialect since then

[@johnfranchina84]

First generation Aussie both parents, grandparents, uncles and aunties migrated from Sicily. Grew up bilingual speaking Sicilian at home and with my relatives and English at school work etc. lived in two worlds . Busted my ancestral village 3 times. So proving of my Sicilian heritage. Love hearing real Sicilians speaking in their language.

[@francesvansiclen3245]

Sicily is one of the most beautiful places we have been; we loved it and the wonderful people !!! God bless them all !

[@morgananastasi9472]

I don't know if anyone will see this, but my great grandfather Francisco Anastasi and his wife Antonia Fornaro left Messina for Boston in 1907 aboard the SS Canopic. Cheers to all SICILIANS!

[@Salvino110]

Talè che beddu video. I understood every word since I spoke this dialect with my dad every day. Brings back memories, thank you. 'Mi piacíu assai.'

[@julianaferrone8734]

Thank you for this precious video. It reminds me of happier times

[@bettyloforese4206]

Beautiful. Took me back to the days with my family.

[@19MetroJack]

I am back in Newark in the 50's

[@danielofinan5071]

My grandma and her family came from Leonforte/Assoro. Proud to be Sicilian!

[@flippgoofman1868]

I have no idea what they're saying, but they're enjoying the Hell out of themselves & the language is so melodic & expressive.

[@cjohnson4342]

You don't know how much this video means to me. My grandfather was from Trapani and my nona was from Termini. I lived with them from the age of 5 on. This city is the next one to my grandmother's. That must be why I can understand them so well. Non and grandpa had different words for some things. God I miss them. The Sicilian language has such humor; non always said it was better in that respect. Thank you so much for posting this. I play it when I need to go home. Carla

[@vincarcin]

La mia stupenda Sicilia bedda, quanto mi manca. A NY da quasi 40 anni, ma la mia isola piu' bella al mondo, con la gente piu' bella e simpatica al mondo, la tengo nel cuore.

[@cjohnson4342]

God, you made me cry....

[@PlayAxtion]

Most beautiful language I've ever heard. I wish I could speak Sicilian.

[@Melia-77]

Sounds from my childhood when my grandparents and relatives of their generation were still alive. I miss hearing Sicilian so this is a memorable treat. They were from Alessandria della Rocca in the province of Agrigento. Ah memories...

[@The_Plastic_Ape]

Snap, my parents are also from Alessandria Della Rocca. Not been back there for many years. They immigrated to the UK in the 60's, grew up in London, but I can speak the old Sicilian, this video is like listening to my parents talking with their friends.

[@roccalumera1294]

Baciamo Le Mani, Saluti da Messina, Total Respect uossia ssabbinirica, That's my "Grand Parents" and my "Parents" and soon Me. And I Love It!

[@stefos6431]

These folks look like my relatives in Greece and have similar body language as well. Really interesting

[@BassWhiz92]

Stefos the Sicilians on the west coast of Sicily (like Messina) there's many Greeks

[@stefos6431]

That's what I thought........

[@Gabpt]

Stefos Una Faccia Una Razza

[@palermotrapani9067]

@@BassWhiz92 Messina is East. Regardless, Sicily clusters DNA wise with all Southern Italians and the closest DNA cluster outside of Italy with Sicily-Southern Italians are Greeks. There is an extensive body of academic DNA studies that document this fact. Here is a paper by Sazzini et al (2016) which documents how all modern Italians cluster DNA wise and shows Greeks and Italians, pretty much from Central Italy to Sicily, form a close genetic cluster. See Figure 2. www.nature.com/articles/srep32513

[@bb3ca201]

omg wow! I speak Italian fluently, but I need subtitles and a translator for this. Bellissimo ascoltare il siciliano :)

[@genebigs1749]

a few of these people spoke Italian, with a sicilian accent.

[@GioOmerta]

Yeah man its tough

[@wildingboys7100]

You. I’m Sicilian with a little bit of a Sicilian accent

[@cor-z8m]

Sicilian is a language not a dialect!

[@antoninacawley7949]

I turn to here just to hear the language. Since my nonna died over 20years ago I heard less and less. My parents are dead now. I still understand it. Which makes me happy.

[@justinwinn01]

God bless you

[@cjohnson4342]

I barely understand anymore and when I can't think of the word I'm looking for, it saddens me and I have no one to ask

[@francesvansiclen3245]

Romanian, along with Italian, French and Spanish is considered a Romance language; meaning it stems from ancient Rome. Romanians are considered Italian because in ancient Rome they had people go and populate foreign soil such as in Romania. This world is an interesting place.

[@33thdegreescottishrite16]

You learned well... Trajano ceasar of spain took a lot of Spanish and italian people to Romania to inhabit that land.

[@aoneballers]

I am Romanian and sicilian language sounds very familiar for me. Their appearence and faces looks similar to romanians. Im sure from sicilia comes peoples in dacia (romania) 2000 years ago

[@muntaserbarsoom6097]

It sounded like Italian but it is not ... They talk different ... They have their own culture... Salute from North Iraq.

[@danilaird8360]

It is Italian.

[@emanueletardino8545]

@@danilaird8360no, è siciliano, con qualche parola italiana dovuta al fatto che ovunque si parla italiano in Sicilia

[@eduardocarbonellbelando6865]

it sounds like a mixture of catalan and italian . An incredible language.

[@Rainbowvxn]

My Grandparents have both passed within these 2 years, but I will learn Italian and Sicilian to remember them by. I wish I had been intelligent and learned from them so that I could have spoken to them in it. My Grandpa was born and lived in Giardinello, Sicily till he was nearly 26, moved his family to Michigan. My Grandma used to speak to him in a mix of Italian and Sicilian, her parents were from Napoli and Genova, so they had their own very personal way of speaking to each other. It was very amusing! We knew when they were swearing even when my brothers and I were little. 😹

[@leshapenny8392]

Beautiful video. I applaud your work to show the true Sicily. I hope that you will continue to make videos--it is wonderful to hear the wonderful Sicilian cadence and language from so far away.

[@matthewgalati1870]

Sicilians are the "suffering people." Our morals are so strong that we suffer constantly in each generation.

[@josebartoli9921]

FOLKS! Let's get one thing straight once and for all: "Classic" Sicilian is NOT a dialect of Italian.

[@josebartoli9921]

barely anything ..... mostly very very little........... but nowadays everyone pretty much speaks standard Italian.

[@TheAnarchistBeekeeper]

Mark Richardson If this person from Turin would speak in his own language (Piemontese, similar to southern french) the Sicilian guy wouldn't understand anything too.. But we're talking about old people, today in turin is much easier to find a Sicilian/southern italian than a native and only few old people know the dialect, in the other hand Sicilian in Sicily is still quite alive.

[@Jens0880]

But regional and local languages are called dialects in Italy. It's just that "dialect" is not a strictly linguistic term, rather a political one.

[@palermotrapani9067]

@Mark Richardson Sicilian came mostly directly from Latin or indirectly from other Latin derived Languages. It emerged the same time the Toscana Language, which the Standardized version of Toscana, is what became Standard Italian today. Sicilian and Toscana languages emerged around the same time and Dante and all the great Tuscan writers were in fact inspired and shaped by the Sicilian language and structure that was part of the Palermo School of Poetry. That school was the result of the Norman Ruler, I think Roger, wanting to bring together all the great writers in Sicily to put together all the literary classics and folk songs of the time, etc into a standard Sicilian language.

[@Sigridovski]

Exactly! It would be nice to find a proper and old dictionary.

[@valerieboncoraglio761]

Awesome video...This sounds like a typical sunday afternoon with my family when i was child.....Sadly, the only two people left i can speak Sicilian with is my father and my husband.

[@melonsoda123]

To all the Sicilian-Americans that I referred to as "Italians," I apologize.

[@cjacobsen99]

BrightBlue1111 The apology is accepted ;)

[@yungbrat8095]

but they are italian

[@PaulusCaesar]

technically, we all are. Yet the culture are quite different. A venetian and a neapolitan, for instance, really have little in common, apart from the national language. A bit like Spain with Catalans, Basque, Galician... the French, on the other end, almost annihilated the different cultures and languages inside their national territory. I don't know about Germans, but they have many quite different dialects as well.

[@veronica-]

There's an amount of people in every italian region who doesn't want to be considered italian. Thing is we all are and that's the end of it. The variety in itself is something that makes us italian, the younger people are also more assimilated.

[@danilaird8360]

No apology accepted. I am Italian half from my mom's side. I am just as Italian as you and whoever is Italian from Italy. My grandpop was born on a boat coming from Italy. His surname ( my mom's surname) was Budassi. All names in my family ( mom's side) are Italian, we speak some Italian ( mostly slang), we have connections to mob, we eat Italian, we love food and family, and we are Italian. I am only half because my dad is not Italian but Scottish-Irish. Sorry but I am half Italian. I love my heritage. If you think Iezzo, Budassi, Ponziano, Virgilio , Brocelli and Bevilacqua are not Italian surnames ( all my family ) you offend me. Some are Roman and some are other. Some even from Southern Italy... I am half Italian and proud. I even inherited my mom's curly thick hair and big eyes.

[@IlGattonero13]

This seems like a mix of Sicilian and Italian. One gentleman in particular is speaking almost exclusively Italian, I think. I wish there were a translation available of the whole conversation. The background music is distracting, though.

[@glittermama]

agree about the music. I hate when videos have music.

[@tufernhel2925]

Awesome! Thank you.

[@TheCremedella]

Sicilians ! Yay

[@custodecimiteriale]

Sicilian is not a dialect, it's a language.

[@stefanofranchini9416]

language from africa

[@thewebhorse]

Franchini sai cosa? La Sicilia è come un vino troppo pregiato. I palati dei cafoni non devono assaggiarlo... bevi il tavervello, è adeguato al tuo livello culturale

[@aristobrat4987]

@@stefanofranchini9416 very wrong. its many languages in one. our culture is a bit african but out language not so much

[@myloberry1207]

@@stefanofranchini9416 from arab and we are proud

[@stefanofranchini9416]

@@thewebhorse Preferisci bere un bicchiere in meno di vino, perché chiunque scriva così tanta merda è già ubriaco 😂😂😂 Ricorda una cosa: Tutto ciò che è sotto Roma non appartiene più all'Italia, sono africani ! 😂

[@matthewgalati1870]

Sicilians are people who have been portrayed very badly in the media and movies. We are loving people who love our families to the point that, if necessary we will fight and die for them.

[@tinaorifici-hasan832]

Matthew Galati Galati, I know many Galati's! Is your family from Tortorici perhaps?

[@matthewgalati1870]

@@tinaorifici-hasan832 No. My family is from Partinico.. It is a small town close to Palermo. Happy New Year.

[@othercarib]

I spent some time in Florence Italy years ago and hitch-hiked down to Sicily where I could not understand a word....well that was 40 years ago when standard Italian was not so widespread. I always wanted to learn the language and found this great book called Learn Sicilian by Gaetano Cipolla...for those who might want to learn it.

[@josebartoli9921]

Prof. G. Cipolla taught Al Pacino how to pronounce Sicilian in the Godfather

[@williamlenihan7536]

There are so many opinions about dialects in Italy including that of Sicily. Firstly, much of what these speakers are speaking is standard modern Italian, not dialect. Some are speaking in a mix of Italian with a few dialect words. Every region of Italy has numerous dialects, not just one per region. The north of Italy dialects contain more German, archaic expressions from old French, while each region speaks a dialect according to its history. One dialect is not ‘more Italian’ than another. They are all Latin languages. They are all Italian languages. Much spoken here is largely Italian, (or the Tuscan default) adopted from the period of Dante onward with dialect words here and there depending upon the speaker. Each region of speakers speaks with an accent in Italian, informed from the dialect. As well, many words in dialect are essentially the same as that of Italian, though with some change, such as the ‘u’ sound from the old Latin (as we hear in Sicily), instead of the ‘o’ endings. There are many instances of these minute changes. The dialects of Piemonte, or Reggio-Emilia, Veneto, ecc. are largely incomprehensible to outside speakers. Napoletana for example is old Latin, Oscan, Spanish, Provencal and more. When spoken outside of its zone, there is virtually no understanding. This is the case for nearly all of the dialects in Italy.

[@muntaserbarsoom6097]

I feel like home and I don't understand a thing 😭 my family speaks Aramic. They are just the same, like my people🥰

[@Donknowww]

I think all the people from the countries and regions around the mediterranean sea are the same. We are all passionate, loud, friendly, open to strangers. From Syria/Turkey/Lebanon/Levante to Egypt, trough northern africa untill morrocco, from portugal/spain, southern france, to italy and the balkans, to greece untill we are in turkey again. We are like brothers and sisters and we must help and protect each other. Greetings from Sicily Brother

[@cjohnson4342]

​@@Donknowwwyou are right and I appreciate my own kind

[@scoobie331]

It's the 1980s in Aunt Roses kitchen in Queens all over again.

[@Largepro21]

💯

[@cjohnson4342]

This is how I learned where we were going on vacation, what the Christmas gifts were, how so and so got in trouble and every other forbidden thing. Makes you learn quick

[@aoneballers]

Im romanian and sicilian language sounds very familiar for me and also their appearence and faces are very similar to Romanians. Sometimes sounds like old romanian language. I am pretty sure from there comes people in dacia (romania) 2000 years ago

[@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya]

Really? 🤨

[@tonivullo]

very nice belli tempi

[@tonymanfredi6844]

Trùoppu Bedda!!

[@ianou1000]

it looks like the same dialect that my grandparents were talking to each other, i understood a few sentences. Do you know something about the sicilians from tunisia?

[@pamelabromberg2745]

My great-great grandfather was from Tunisia.

[@MindsEyeVisualGuitarMethods]

I love you all

[@bryancorts5389]

Some of my family members speak like this.

[@danilaird8360]

Mine too

[@Emerald007007]

Does anyone know can you get to Sicily from the mainland Italy by boat or do you have to fly. im from Ireland and Italy is the only country in the world that I would live apart from here.

[@carmelina2000]

If you fly to Rome from Ireland you can catch the boat from Civitavecchia to Palermo. Alternatively there are boats leaving from Genova, Livorno e Naples to Palermo. From Salerno to Messina. We look forward to your return to Sicily. Carmelina

[@baba-sm1fm]

Chris,I understand my reply comes very late as your question was posted 3 years ago. You can get on the train from any main Italian city, the train will travel all the way to the south end of the main land (on the shore of the strait of Messina.) You don't need to get off the train at all, once the ship arrives to the other side of the strait (Sicily), the train exits the ship and will continue the trip to the city of your choice,usually either Messina which is by the strait, or Catania, or Palermo.

[@GoobNoob]

You can do both.

[@rebeccafisher5571]

Need english subtitles..totally missing out.

[@JosephPeco-sy1gp]

I will translate it ( i m sicilian)

[@ezebentivegna1676]

Sounds like home

[@Jens0880]

Note that they are speaking Italian here and there in the video.

[@dbrown9495]

I don't understand a word but I can relate

[@fulippuannaghiti1965]

I remind you that a part from the women shown at first; all men in the video talked an Italian with a very strong Sicilian accent, with some Sicilian words. They can speak full Sicilian I'm sure, but too worried not to be understood. You should have heard my 92 year-old aunt, that was truly incompressible to any modern Sicilian.

[@teresaub2]

I wish this had subtitles...I know some Sicilian but my family here that spoke it are all but gone and I have forgotten so much. I would love the translation of this if possible?

[@JosephPeco-sy1gp]

Translate 1 Once there was sincerity in speech,now it s different 2 i have got second grade at school,we had to go to work for food. TITLE (OLD MEMORIES FROM MADONIE) 3 We played with handcart, 41 , we played with the top ecc.) 4 when someone had a stomach ache,they called me,and i had to stay there using my right foot to massage . 5 Speacking of which,we were at school,one day arrived Ant Filumena asking to the teacher for someone able to do that massage,i answered i was able and she told me that she needed me because her goat had labor pains . 6 Once it was everything better that know,food ,air,now air is poison, now nothing is good . 7 In time of harvest ,for us kids was like game,from home to home to stomp grapes,adults was happy becouse we did the job for them. 8 we had the" Lira " now "euro " ruined us. 9 We used sourdough ,with the flour,now we can use brewer s yeast,i still use the sour dough,in the evening it rises,and the day after i can make bread. I go to to getting wood. The bread is very god. 10 There was oil lamps,everynight a man was in charge to turn on every lamps. 11 than finally arrived the telephone in 70 s . My Father bought one,Rosa came to our house to call,becouse it was free for her,she didn t need money to call. 12 We were 4 brothers,in time of war relief was for the third brother,i was the 4th, i had the " leave early " 13 Everynight at 8 pm a train was passing carrying the military boys from a place to another,and everynight on time a plane was passing shooting with machine gun to the train a lower altitude,we were used to that,it had become funny. We hadn t electricity,no water,no bathroom,we used the chamber pot, and we took water to drink from fontains. 16 We were all farmers,ofter school we had to graze our goats,if we didn t do it our parents didn t leave us to eat at dinner. 17 It was the fascist period,every summer we did the " colonies " with the school s teachers and kids,for us it was something great ,huge change , We went out of our village. Every morning we ate bread with jam or butter and at midday we ate pasta. That kind of food was unknown to us. Somebody took advantage for , he gave us something else like pears and bread. One day two girls (supervisors) came to visit us ,asking us if we was eating good,teachers told us that we had to respond always positive,and we answered always with yes like a flock of sheep,but a kid suddenly told them that we were eating bread with pears and not jam and others good thing like others kid.. It was that holy truth .

[@cjohnson4342]

​@@JosephPeco-sy1gpthank you so much!

[@glittermama]

I understand most of this; my grandparents' paese is in the Madonie. Love Sicily and Sicilian, my first language (and English at the same time).

[@fabrizioprisinzano367]

I live 18km away from that marvellous village, I'd love to translate everything but I might get my pension before finishing it off :D

[@eeliasb3722]

The most beautiful part of the Sicilian language were the Blasphemies. As a child I use to take the air out of my grandpas tires just to hear the beautiful and melodic string of insults in sicilian...

[@tonymanfredi6844]

rispettu!

[@TheKeKe313]

This video sounds like spaghetti! ☺😋🥰

[@lars6104]

Man in the striped shirt looks like my papa lmao

[@anitalenor1]

translation caption needed.

[@uncleleo1873]

No translation needed

[@JosephPeco-sy1gp]

Translate 1 Once there was sincerity in speech,now it s different 2 i have got second grade at school,we had to go to work for food. TITLE (OLD MEMORIES FROM MADONIE) 3 We played with handcart, 41 , we played with the top ecc.) 4 when someone had a stomach ache,they called me,and i had to stay there using my right foot to massage . 5 Speacking of which,we were at school,one day arrived Ant Filumena asking to the teacher for someone able to do that massage,i answered i was able and she told me that she needed me because her goat had labor pains . 6 Once it was everything better that know,food ,air,now air is poison, now nothing is good . 7 In time of harvest ,for us kids was like game,from home to home to stomp grapes,adults was happy becouse we did the job for them. 8 we had the" Lira " now "euro " ruined us. 9 We used sourdough ,with the flour,now we can use brewer s yeast,i still use the sour dough,in the evening it rises,and the day after i can make bread. I go to to getting wood. The bread is very god. 10 There was oil lamps,everynight a man was in charge to turn on every lamps. 11 than finally arrived the telephone in 70 s . My Father bought one,Rosa came to our house to call,becouse it was free for her,she didn t need money to call. 12 We were 4 brothers,in time of war relief was for the third brother,i was the 4th, i had the " leave early " 13 Everynight at 8 pm a train was passing carrying the military boys from a place to another,and everynight on time a plane was passing shooting with machine gun to the train a lower altitude,we were used to that,it had become funny. We hadn t electricity,no water,no bathroom,we used the chamber pot, and we took water to drink from fontains. 16 We were all farmers,ofter school we had to graze our goats,if we didn t do it our parents didn t leave us to eat at dinner. 17 It was the fascist period,every summer we did the " colonies " with the school s teachers and kids,for us it was something great ,huge change , We went out of our village. Every morning we ate bread with jam or butter and at midday we ate pasta. That kind of food was unknown to us. Somebody took advantage for , he gave us something else like pears and bread. One day two girls (supervisors) came to visit us ,asking us if we was eating good,teachers told us that we had to respond always positive,and we answered always with yes like a flock of sheep,but a kid suddenly told them that we were eating bread with pears and not jam and others good thing like others kid.. It was that holy truth .

[@mrkiller701]

bella lingua

[@KEILITA92]

Ma io capisco un po quello che dicono perche parlano qualque parole in italiano

[@thanksleft]

Whats the poi t of this video if youre not gonna put subtitles?

[@juansanchez9019]

I speak Spanish and I understand

[@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya]

El pueblo siciliano es como el árbol del carrubbo, sus brechas son fuertes y llegan muy lejos, pero sus raíces son enormes y profundas.

[@99DUVETICA]

I recommend an excellent book for this argue "La Sicilia dell 800 tra giochi e tradizioni dal punto di vista di Giuseppe Pitrè" di Leda Nelli su amazon.

[@aristobrat4987]

how rude that the auto translate says italian >: (

[@rinoferraro2126]

Theres Calabrese dialect within.

[@emanueletardino8545]

‘U calabrisi assumigghia a ‘u sicilianu, but they are all sicilians

[@andrei642]

This totally sounds like romanian.Try to ignore the words and go with the sound.

[@alexandruvisan7628]

+Andrei Nicolae totally agree with this.

[@andrei642]

Mark Richardson no.not at all.it s just the sound of the language.it s very subjective

[@samilsam]

There is a democracy problem in the world. I appreciate your effort for not forgetting your mother tounge.

[@Pasquale-Ragone]

Un saluto a tutti l'emittenti

[@carmelaangelaricciardello1552]

So pleased that the video touched you. The Sicilian dialect is my mother tongue when I emigranted to Austalia with my family we continued to speak Sicilian till this day. Upon returning to Sicily I had to learn Italian only the elderly people still speak the dialect. Thank you for taking the time to post your feedback.

[@thewebhorse]

Thank you Carmela. I'm sicilian living in Sicily. You can't imagine how much I'm proud to be it. I don't really feel myself Italian, but rather sicilian. Your nice video made me emotional. I'm aware many many Sicilian expated abroad never has been forgotten them land and neither them son, grandsons etcetera and that warms my heart. I wish reffer you an ancient metaphor "Il siciliano è come l'albero del carrubbo, i suoi rami maestosi si estendono lontano, ma le sue radici sono solide e profonde" translation : "Sicilian people is like carrubbo tree, his breanchs strength out and gets so far, but him roots are massive and deep". (carrubbo is a huge tree wich mostly grows up in South Sicily). Take care! Silvio

[@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya]

@@thewebhorse El pueblo siciliano es como el árbol del carrubbo, sus brechas son fuertes y llegan muy lejos, pero sus raíces son enormes y profundas.

[@antoninoscro1834]

Nuatri parramu Sempri 'nsicilianu! A nuatri a nostra lngua unne capaci livarinilla NUDDRU!

[@Sigridovski]

They also speak some Italian here, don't they?

[@emanueletardino8545]

One of the senior speaks more Italian than Sicilian

[@Gabpt]

I swear the old lady at 0:20 is the feminine version of the notorious mafioso Toto Riina

[@joe24108]

We still speak but teaching my kids italian because this is almost extinct

[@Sigridovski]

Sicilian is a language, one of the biggest, as English and Arabic and they managed to convince the Sicialian people that it was a dialect. You can say things in Sicilian, you can not express in Italian. Italian was invented later, was it not? Then they took everything from Sicily - even it's language. Then you might have different Sicilian dialects around, dialects to Sicilian, NOT dialects to Italian, because Italian is completely different from Sicilian. It is another language. So this was done and there is no Sicilian-Sicilian dictionary made, which is a shame. So the people don't speak that other language Italian very well, or as well as they could, had they been allowed to learn their own mother tongue first. Sicily ought to get its industry, its money and creation and its language back and thus its pride and ethics.

[@thewebhorse]

I never have heard a wiser statement. I agree it 100%. You know, my friend, under my opinion, the best awful time wich Sicily lived were when a rascal named Garibaldi shipped in Sicily in 1861 to robber our wealth, scamming our people and submit them. Since that time many people expated abroad (maybe you or your anchestors as well). Anyway, you know, fortunally, italian couldn't robbered our history, our nature and, mostly our joyfull. That nice fellow on clip witness it.

[@cjohnson4342]

I miss the humor, my grandparents used to rib each other in the most gracious manner

[@almaouguelmim9778]

That's the Sicily you should show on tv honest nice and generous people not the mafia son of a ........a freind from Algeria north Africa .

[@giuseppeg3672]

La signora hai ragione, era piu megghiu con la lira xd

[@tonivullo]

paisani a cefalu...

[@aresmarte8368]

simpatico l'uomo con i baffi

[@jf7075]

doesn't seem to me that they're speaking in proper sicilian... the accent is very strong but this is classic italian. i speak italian understand all of it.. but i lived in palermo for six months and couldn't understand people when they spoke in sicilian

[@thewebhorse]

You're right. Really they talked a mix of Italian and dialect.

[@tFighterPilot]

I guess it does kinda sound like Romanian.

[@cristic767]

tFighterPilot , I am Romanian. The talk does not sound like something from our country. We have accents, like every country, but nothing like this... Anyway, I like these guys. :) As look, they remind me of the old people from Romania. :)

[@alexandruvisan7628]

+Cristi C Cristi, I'm Romanian as well, but for me, it definitely sounds like Romanian. Of course I cannot understand all the words, but the sound of the dialect/language sounds like Romanian.

[@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya]

@@alexandruvisan7628 I think Romanian sounds like Slavic in my ears.

[@IvanSam1]

Sounds like Latin language with Greek accent

[@eduarddumitru8761]

It sounds like Romanian.

[@alexsuarezartis1743]

Sicilianu=lingua.

[@oiurehj]

1) Sicilian is a dialect, the only recognized language by Unesco between all the italian dialects is the sardinian. Period. You can think whatever you want but this doesn't change the situation. 2) Sicilian people are italian, same for Apulians, Sardinians, Venetians, etc.... We already have our problems in Italy and now i read comments written by foreigns people stating bullshits about us even though they live 6000 km away. Be proud of your ancestors and origins but don't add fuel to the fire. Thanks. In the end i'll say this, as an italian (tuscanian) i think of italians as my brothers and sisters, doesn't matter which part of the country they come from, and i feel really sad when i read about italians who don't feel italian or people who would like to have an indipendent region (luckily they are a very small percentage) because our ancestors fought and died to unify this country and i don't want their sacrifice to be useless, it would be a huge shame to live with.

[@manitheman0806]

well said

[@abdelazizalmoutaouakil1299]

Sicilians definitely are arabs they are like us if i put my grandfather there you will think that he is Sicilian

[@tinaorifici-hasan832]

Abdelaziz Al moutaouakil remember, Sicily was Arab for over 200 years.. even some Sicilian words come from Arabic! I myself have lots of Arab DNA!

[@sufiboy4597]

@Spotek lol my friend did 23and me he was 5% North African, his Sicilian Australian.

[@sufiboy4597]

@Spotek 😂 okay

[@esti-od1mz]

I'm a bit late, but I will answer the same. Here in Sicily we have many arab immigrants, and I can say that I can recognize an Arab when I see one. Greetings

[@samufaus2]

@@esti-od1mz but many Sicilians just look just like Arabs. there's a reason to it, which is that Arabs ruled Sicily for over 200 years and they left their footprint

[@deleted157]

Sicilians - Half Arab Italians - Half Greek Sicilians Are Not Italians We Are Not Italians

[@danilaird8360]

You are.

[@andevien2542]

Omg why are you so obsessed just with Arabs and Greeks... we had 13 different populations... actually Arabs have been here for just 150 years over 3000

[@samufaus2]

@@andevien2542 because they left their footprint

[@antoninoscro1834]

@@andevien2542 Chi e'un ti piaci ca semu puru arabi, chi ciavissi addiri?

[@emanueletardino8545]

@@andevien2542semu ‘na picca arabi, ‘na picca greci, ‘na picca arbanisi, ‘na picca armeni, ‘na picca cartagginisi e atri cosi

[@Dave-lr2wo]

God how annoying. Take me to Scandinavia, please.