That's why Italians use their hands, otherwise they couldn't understand the 9000 languages that they have.

@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870

7 жыл бұрын

Aromberion 15 major "Language" or dialect, 46 subdialect and, I think, 94 or 95 subsubdialect.

@SidheKnight

7 жыл бұрын

The joke ^ | | Your head

@HarlanMalkavian

7 жыл бұрын

over 9000

@auriauri4668

7 жыл бұрын

Imo hand gesture comes from the fact that we are in the middle of the mediterranean sea and we communicate with a huge amount of different cultures since ever. So It's somehow correct to me :)

@iota-09

7 жыл бұрын

i mean, that honestly sounds reasonable, signs are understood by everyone after all.

The difference between Sicilian and Italian is that when you're offered something in Sicilian, you can't refuse.......

@jmoney20106

4 жыл бұрын

Tubmaster 5000 lol

@kacperwoch4368

4 жыл бұрын

UNDERRATED

@empereur_du_congoeddy-malo2286

4 жыл бұрын

If you won't sleep with the fish

@trillyale9107

4 жыл бұрын

Finalmente un ironico. Bravo!

@luckyassassin1

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much

I am a product of an Italian mother (Tuscany) and a Sicilian father. My father was tough but had a heart of gold. (This describes Sicilians pretty well.) My father played jazz clarinet and tenor sax and played music jobs until he was 80. Sicilians are very musical and, in the old country, sing their folk songs constantly. Like all Italians, Sicilian are very emotional people whose poverty makes them macho when underneath, they are very loving. My father was a friendly, talented man who had good standard intelligence despite only going to the 7th grade. That American-Sicilian died at 83 after a rich full life of bringing six children into the world and guiding them 24 hours a day. He was a devout Catholic and for a jazz musician of his day, that was a pretty unusual accomplishment. God bless you Pop! I miss you and your loving heart! (Time out for a cry!!!)

...please, more sicilian... i've not heard any since my mamma e pappa have passed... please, more sicilian. it lifts my heart from the ground and warms my face... please more sicilian

@winchesterpenobscot767

4 жыл бұрын

@YoStefan ...yeah cant find a phone to accomodate my big assed fingers. surprised i actually tap anything out close to being spelled correctly. as for your correction... i never heard of anything close to that word with that meaning anywhere on the island and i've many friends and relatives all over sicily, sardinia and the mainland. idk, i guess it's one of those secret sicilian words.

@whisperingsage

3 жыл бұрын

I took care of an elderly Sicilian in a nursing home in Santa Cruz, CA, he was very special. He loved babies. He was usually pretty helpless, or so we thought, until anyone brought in a baby and he would bolt upright in the bed and ask to hold the baby, and he would kiss it, and he was so cute . He was from the Fishing culture of Sicilians in Santa Cruz. I got pretty good at Spanish as we had a lot of Mexicans we worked with, but he just spoke English to us. I had not realized Sicilian was it's own dialect. That's very interesting. Thanks for making it fun too.

@d4rkf0x70

3 жыл бұрын

Daddy=Papà No Pappa Noob

@lucabralia5125

3 жыл бұрын

@@winchesterpenobscot767 Well, maybe you haven't heard pappa becuase it's normally used while speaking to small children or babies, for example: "Apri la bocca che arriva la pappa" "Open your mouth food is coming" It's a type of food for small children, it can also be used for the word royal jelly (pappa reale)

@Goldenskies__

3 жыл бұрын

@@winchesterpenobscot767 it's not a secret word hahah it's only used with babies, "la pappa" is baby food. Perhaps that's the reason you've never heard of it. It's a very common word actually, only used with babies tho!

In Italy, you walk 100 meters from your house and you're in new dialect.

@acquinfuocata

7 жыл бұрын

actually, just outside the door of your house is another dialect from the one within

@rinoportier556

7 жыл бұрын

Luka Stanar in some part of Italy is very similar to what you said😂😂. For doing an example I live in a 4000 people town that is between Ancona, 100000 people, and Jesi, 40000 people. I have Lived in a other very small town that is also a lot more close to Ancona and is under his administration, and I do the high school at Ancona and I went to Ancona in my life a very big amount of time,and I went to Jesi only a couple of time. Also at my birth house were speak the dialect of Ancona (even if not the true dialect) And the dialect of Ancona is different from the Jesi's one, and there are only 30km distance between the 2 city. The vocabulary is quite the same, but you can hear a difference in term of phonology.

@user-qo1hg3wq4f

7 жыл бұрын

But my question is why?Why that doesn't happen in another countries?

@user-qo1hg3wq4f

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but if you think about political divisions for example.Germany used to be very fragmented but still there are no so huge differences in language(as far as I know).

@rinoportier556

7 жыл бұрын

Luka Stanar Germany medieval and modern history and Italy medieval and modern history are very similiar but Germany today doesn't have that big difference in dialect. I don' t know if in Germany there were a lot of dialects like in Italy and then they disappear. It is difficult to me to find a reason for this, but I think that the reason is in the Holy Roman Empire. Italy was in the Holy Roman Empire until the 1200- 1300, when in Italy born a lot of what in Italy are call "Comuni" ( a form of local administration). At the time Italy didn't have a local domination by the time of the romans, so it was in this period that born the different dialects, but the "Comuni" were split, so every "Comuni" made is tradition and language. In Germany they will be fragmented after the "Comuni" period, but they were still part of Holy Roman Empire, that had the ancient german as official language, so the little germans states don't need to create new languages. And this reason is also proven by the fact that all the states that were in the Holy Roman Empire territory, after the Italy exit, still today speak languages that are variations of german or are derivated, like the dutch.

"In Sicily woman are more dangerous than shotguns."

@Jaeger_Bishop

7 жыл бұрын

Don't...just don't, Sicilians are known for their tempers and the women especially.

@sigspearthumb3904

7 жыл бұрын

That's almost as amusing as saying "all italians are mobsters" honestly they've been saying that for decades. lol...

@firestorm165

7 жыл бұрын

*books flight to Sicily

@Jaeger_Bishop

7 жыл бұрын

See this guy (or girl...not really sure) get's it, a little trolling goes a long way :p

@auriauri4668

7 жыл бұрын

High-Marshal_Jaeger I'm a girl and that was a joke

My father is from the province of Palermo and my mother is from the province of Ragusa. I grew up speaking two different sicilian dialects.

@jeffhidalgo198

2 жыл бұрын

My Grandmother was from Dellaperuta ( I'm sure I spelled that wrong) . A suburb of Palermo. Cheers!

@michaelm-bs2er

2 жыл бұрын

Did you find that one was more difficult to understand than the other?

@ThePumpingiron27

2 жыл бұрын

My great grandma was from Palermo and her mother was from Agrigento.

@giulio1957

2 жыл бұрын

provincia di ragusa dove precisamente?

@glittermama

2 жыл бұрын

As I noted in a response above, I could only understand my grandmother's family and not my grandfather's, as he wasn't a big talker and I spent most of my time with my grandmother. And these two families lived across town.

Loved this video! My father is Sicilian (from Siracusa) and he always speaks to us in Sicilian. Thanks to him I understand this beautiful lenguage... because it is beautiful! Great channel!

wtf is with italy it's like you have to know three dialects just to cross the street

@nicholassama1572

5 жыл бұрын

historical political divisions

@tafua_a

5 жыл бұрын

I am from Trento, and there is a town called Rovereto a few miles away. We can understand each other's dialect (it's still Trentini dialect), but they have a completely different accent.

@wallyeva9490

5 жыл бұрын

manitari97 no it's not. You can learn italian we do speak italian. You don't need to speak a dialet, none of them. Indeed I heard about a person that spoke just a dialet from naples, she is from Australia, she does not speak italian, just a dialet... well, she went for vacation in the north of Italy, no one could understand her, plus everyone avoided her cause no one in the north of Italy appreciate people from naples... I mean, it's a stereotypes, but, yes, nobody likes them.

@tenienteramires4428

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, they're languages, not dialects

@tenienteramires4428

5 жыл бұрын

@walt cuperidge Venetian, Sicilian, Catalan... Are also Italian languages, not dialects.

"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy"

@haoxin1131

5 жыл бұрын

Not always true. Javanese is a language without army and navy

@kenken8765

4 жыл бұрын

yeah but Sicilians have the Mafia what does leave them?

@andreavinci4939

4 жыл бұрын

Sicilian Is linguage not dialect

@ilcondottierocartografo6770

4 жыл бұрын

Ò m g That is genuinly genius Woooooowwwww you made my day thank you man

@tony72tony72

3 жыл бұрын

...............yep

As a greek who has lived in Sicily for more than 3 years I can say that most of the times I could understand Sicilian much more than Italian. With both languages we have many things in common but with the south part of Italy we have more. It might be because until 1200 AD it was a place called Magna Grecia where greek was the dominant language. As for it's structure I believe that it's heavily influenced by Greek, Arabian, Latin and than goes the rest.

@georgeevangel3956

4 жыл бұрын

Greek naval terms are from the Venetians {Italian}

@user-jf6yv8rj2s

4 жыл бұрын

@@georgeevangel3956 And which are these terms?

@georgeevangel3956

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-jf6yv8rj2s The terms the Greeks use for naval terms.How much simpler do yo uo want it?

@user-jf6yv8rj2s

4 жыл бұрын

@@georgeevangel3956 Which terms use the Greeks? Because i m not a sailor and i dont know them. Can you tell me?

@georgeevangel3956

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-jf6yv8rj2s Terms like Mast.helmsman,.port,fathom,bulwark,riggin,stern,port You sir are not Greek,I am and wouldn’t know these things Greeks in middle ages had respect for the Venetians navy If you don’t know what youre talking about Stay out of it

If Italians always use their hands in speaking, do I want to meet a talkative Italian barber?

@NoName-yw1pt

4 жыл бұрын

Try

@georgeevangel3956

4 жыл бұрын

All mediterranean people talk with their hands

@MrWolf-xk8sl

3 жыл бұрын

You should try Italian gynecologists ;)

@QoraxAudio

3 жыл бұрын

How about a surgeon? Better to avoid the hospital.. after an accident with a driver doing the sign language on the highway.

@josephinerossello2967

3 жыл бұрын

I always laugh when I hear that. I have notice many many people from America and other country use their hands a lot. My husband and I laugh when we hear remarks like yours. Your stupidity shows!

As a Greek..........Sicilian sounds a lot more Greek than Italian does..........Naturally.

@giyu1195

5 жыл бұрын

Stefos becouse we're history brothers ;)

@Gkogkas

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I understand very much words

@Adam.P

5 жыл бұрын

Because Sicilians are really descendants of ancient Greeks, even more so in neighboring Calabria. Calabrian ( or actually Sicilian spoken in Calabria)sounds really Greek

@glittermama

5 жыл бұрын

Stefos, did you know there is a dialect of Italian that is based on Greek? In Salento. See "Ballati Tutti Quanti: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino." This music is "pizzica," and I love it. KZread: kzread.info

@christoforoscharalampous3351

5 жыл бұрын

We greeks are DNA brothers with greeks and Sicilian people and orthodox brothers with the serbs

Sicilians are the only people in the world that can make a fedora look intimidating. It's like an ethnic superpower or something.

@LMWelsh-oh5iu

6 жыл бұрын

LMFAO!

@ivanf.482

5 жыл бұрын

Fishhunter2014 ahahahahahahaah

@dorakemba2899

5 жыл бұрын

Do you consider Sicilian as an ethnicity?

@ivanf.482

5 жыл бұрын

Dora Këmba Sicilian is not an ethnicity . But... is a kind of italian . Italy is much different

@dorakemba2899

5 жыл бұрын

@Namukolo Situmbeko According to who? I guess you've never met a Sicilian.

Extremely interesting! My mother's side of the family is Sicilian, but growing up in America, I haven't been able to experience the Sicilian culture as much as I would have appreciated. I'm researching more about the culture, the history, and my families histories to try and get a better grasp of my heritage, and videos like this really give me a better grasp about how the culture is! Thank you :)

@yardogyuh2049

Ай бұрын

Same my family in America wasn't very connected to there Sicilian. They didn't teach us Italian or visit the homeland. However, my mom changed that and now I have a beautiful relationship with my family in Sicily. Its great!

I'm American and lived in Milan for 30 years and now I'm living in SICILIA...the difference is ASTONDING! People. Food. Weather. Surrounded by the Beautiful Sea! I love SICILY!!

they told me i couldn't make a joke about an Italian island. i said don't be sicily

@PeachDragon_

6 жыл бұрын

Little Dan McNamara fight me

@shadowenighthawke3432

5 жыл бұрын

Little Dan McNamara Al Italy have one thing in common they settle the matter with a gun

I can see the Spanish influences on Sicilian! "Iri" sounds like "ir" (to go) in Spanish. "Travagghiu" sounds like "trabajo" (work). Btw, Sicilian sounds great! My grandparents were from Sicily (Siracusa), I can´t wait to visit there soon! Great video, thanks!

@YUCAYEQUE

2 жыл бұрын

Very true and agree but despite that overall I find standard Italian a little easier to understand as a Spanish speaker.

@billfilice6408

10 ай бұрын

Or beach which is plaja

Fascinating!! Thank you for this video - I loved hearing the comparison of Italian vs Sicilian words. Bravissimo 👍

Wow... This guy is amazing. I keep coming back to this video and the talent embedded in it never fails to impress me. I live in Milano now and I am trying to learn, this video has helped me get a gist of dialects/variations and I am thankful for being able to do it here in this channel.

sicilian is definitely a language. It's not derived from italian, but they have common roots. Moreover, it's a "romance" language. What You call different subgroups, are actually sicilian dialects.

@billfilice6408

4 жыл бұрын

Italiam derived from sicilian which is ghe direst root to vulgar latin. The word brother in latin is fratis, in Sicilian frati and Italian fratello. The Sicilian U at the end of words is because they drop the S from latin US

@Lmaooooooooooooo467

4 жыл бұрын

@@billfilice6408 Italian derived from Tuscan dialect, you ignorant. Only Italian POETRY came from Sicilian language.

@kaizersose7437

4 жыл бұрын

Sicilian is very different bro. I was living in Milano and spoke with a Milanese accent and when I went to sicily I had to learn Sicilian like it was a new language but it was actually easy for me because I was already fluent in Spanish when I moved to Milano but most of the words that are different about Sicilian from Italian, I already knew the words because I knew Spanish and that word is used in Spanish for instance in Italy we say “lavore” for to work but in Sicily they say travvagiare, and in Spanish they say trabajar, basically the same as the Spanish word. And Sicilian has a lot more “I” sounds than Italian, it’s hard to explain, but also the verb iri in Sicilian is the same as Spanish ir where as in Italian it’s andar

@kaizersose7437

4 жыл бұрын

And I also speak a dialect of Italian that you guys never heard of but I’ll write a sentence in it and y’all tell if you can understand it or know the dialect. Io mi sò cresciùt neloi stati uniti y alloi ventitrei añi mi sò transferìt nell’Italia per vivir junti con mia tipa. A qui in Italia facio il directore delle vendite per un’azienda americana e vivo a Milano. Vollerei saver se voialtri pòdene capir tùd quello ch’he scrìt. È un dialecto meno conosciùt.

@papalupa

4 жыл бұрын

@@kaizersose7437 I speak Spanish, Portuguese and I am learning French, thinking hard, I could understand about 65% of what you said! you said " I only grew up in the United States and after 23 years I moved to Italy to live with my Aunty, in Italy I am the director of an american farm and I live in Milan, I would like to know if you could understand everything I wrote"

I am a Sicilian Girl and of course I know both languages Italian and Sicilian, plus, I live in Germany so i can speak German and English! I feel blessed sometimes lol but cool video theres not much people that talk about our beautiful Sicily 🇮🇲♥️

@bangxeloz

6 жыл бұрын

I am YourMother du kannst dich glücklich schätzen! :)

@user-bk1nn9ne4d

5 жыл бұрын

What a good girl!! I wanna marry you!

@shadtofiq8057

5 жыл бұрын

Love Italian culture. I live in Cologne

@WolfCourtaud

5 жыл бұрын

Nordic beauty. ;)

@ChickenSoup736

5 жыл бұрын

Leave the Gun and Take the Cannoli

I was in the airport in San Francisco, and these two guys seemed to be speaking Italian. But then I started listening, and had trouble understanding them. I thought "Oh, they must be from the South." But when I realized I couldn't understand almost anything, I thought "No, they must be Sicilian." One of them stood up, and he had a tattoo of Sicily on his arm.

I’m crying like a baby. I miss my family so much.

@syntex4209

3 жыл бұрын

me too:( my entire family lives in palermo and i am in switzerland seeing them once a year is not enough bruh

@maryraimond9359

3 жыл бұрын

What family you have here on earth, go and see them now💕😘🙏🏼

Something that worries me about videos explaining the differences between Italian and Sicilian is that, for some reason, no one ever seems to bother to mention that while it's true Sicilians speak Sicilian and Sardinians speak Sardinian, etc., Sicilians and Sardinians also speak Standard Italian. Sicilian is not an official language anywhere in the world, not even in Sicily. Sicilian remains a language for home/close friend use and Italian is the language of school, tv, radio, general formality, etc. If this is not mentioned, then people who want to vacation in Sicily/Sardinia will think they will not be able to speak Italian there and will try looking for Sicilian/Sardinian learning materials and find practically nothing. Rest assured, you can converse with almost anyone on those islands in Italian. You might not be able to in remote villages with very old people, but any Sicilian/Sardinian under 70 will be able to speak to you in Italian.

@tilesetter1953

5 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right, they are not official languages and are not written or used except in speaking with friends and family.

@lisalisatoejam2751

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I was wondering about this.

@franznarf

5 жыл бұрын

Però quelli che vengono al nord parlano come dei contadini

@darthdaddy6983

5 жыл бұрын

True , i was in sicily last year & everybody spoke to me in proper italian , even the africans, but amongst themselves the sicilians spoke sicilian.

@LionZ_

5 жыл бұрын

of course when Rome has a foot on their neck about being a same state and culture with the rest. Italy as it is didn't exist until recently basically,

Just came back from Sicily a few days ago, visited some incredible historical sites, some amazing architecture. Definitely my best holiday in Europe.

@auriauri4668

7 жыл бұрын

❤️

@Arturo124

7 жыл бұрын

and not the chepest one

@vallgron

6 жыл бұрын

teddybeddy123 Where else have you been?

@riccardoc.7256

6 жыл бұрын

why should be the cheapest place in europe? impossible understand why people wanna come here and complain fos half price than other place, ¡¡ in all europe, same price in portugal and south spain, why don't people complain about other very expensive places????

@georgeevangel2616

5 жыл бұрын

Did you visit the Greek Parthenon at Segesta?-Still in mint condition

You are a wonderful teacher... gifted and researched... thank you so much

Found your channel many years before this because of your history and weapons videos but I’m glad this came up. Reminds me a lot of Catalan vs Spanish and Occitan vs French the Romance languages are truly beautiful I’ve spent a lot of time self studying and learning about them.

"La lingua è un dialetto che ha fatto carriera".

@gs7828

5 жыл бұрын

Vercassivellauno Arverno Per la lingua italiana è proprio così che è andata.

@MAnnnooo1

5 жыл бұрын

I speak portuguese and I understood half both of you wrote. The language is a dialect that made career. Because italian language is ...

@parthenope.

5 жыл бұрын

Flávio Faive bravo 👏🏻 hahahaha

italians know at least 5 languages. italian, own dialect and neighbour dialects

@andreatavaglione6459

7 жыл бұрын

uhm, that's not true AT ALL, I live in Milan and almost NO ONE knows a dialect.

@flaviospadavecchia5126

7 жыл бұрын

lol no

@JenLaRock

7 жыл бұрын

Andrea Tavaglione in Milan there are not even real milanesi anymore, you all come from different backgrounds. I think dialects are still alive in many italian regions and cities but as time goes by, they are disappearing

@andreatavaglione6459

7 жыл бұрын

that's right, but I know real "milanesi"who do not know their dialect and even if many people in italy still know their city's dialect that's far from knowing at least five languages.

@Silen00

7 жыл бұрын

Not to be an ass Andrea but I'm quite certain that was just a joke.

Just found you on KZread and what you had to say regarding the difference in languages was very interesting. Thank you for sharing

I was looking for this video, thanks man, it was really necessary.

The difference between a dialect and a language, is that a language has an army and a navy.

@GabrieleSangrigoliNorway

7 жыл бұрын

H S Sicilian has a navy, an army and also a "grannies-spy army".

@robertogallo3491

7 жыл бұрын

Gabriele Sangrigoli [RV-QTSS] ahhahahahah michia veru eni

@apvtethic8818

7 жыл бұрын

H S Sicily has Cosa Nostra.

@frozendude707

7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it's not always that simple, here in the north Sami and Meänkieli are considered distinct languages, and not dialects of Swedish, Norwegian, or Finnish, with an exception for Meänkieli which _might_ be close enough to be called a dialect of Finnish (Finnish is very dialectal as well, no Finn speaks standard Finnish in normal conversation). While Danish, Norwegian and Swedish _might_ be close enough to each other to be called dialects of each other, and even more so a bit in the past; before the Swedish monarchy changed the language specifically to distinct it from Danish, national borders dictated which is which. Language is complicated like that.

@GabrieleSangrigoliNorway

7 жыл бұрын

Ja, akkurat! Jeg vil si at Sisiliansk var et språk FØR italiensk blir et språk. Italiensk er egentlig som Bokmål. De har sett sammen alle italienske språk (med italienske mener jeg at de kommer fra den italienske halvøya, det handler mer om geografi enn om språk), og så blir italiensk skapet. Men italiensk er bare en måte for å forene alle kulturer og språk som Italia hadde. De var forskjellige Rikdommer med forskjellige måte å leve. Finnes det en SÅ STOR forskjellen mellom den svenske, norske og danske kulturen? Nei. De er ikke så forskjellige. Prøv å analysere LIVET, SPRÅK og LITTERATUR av Sicilia og Piemonto. Du skal oppfinne at de er helt forskjellige.

For those people saying that Sicilian is just a dialect of Italian, consider that Sicilian and Tuscan (the regional language that modern Standard Italian is based on) come from two separate groups within the Italo-Dalmatian group of Romance languages. While, yes, they share a common overarching branch of the Romance language family, they are distinct enough to be considered separate languages, and, I believe, should be recognized as such. To put it in comparison, to say Sicilian is a dialect of Italian is as if you were to say Occitan was a dialect of French; both are Gallo-Romance languages, but French is a langue d'oïl while Occitan is from the Occitano-Romance branch. These are not dialects, but living, breathing languages of their own that deserve a seat at the table and a place in the classroom just as much as the standard languages of their respective countries.

@user-bk1nn9ne4d

5 жыл бұрын

Who the fuck cares?

@darthdaddy6983

5 жыл бұрын

Yes ! The Etruscans , i so happened to have visited Pitigliano last august .. They said mine was the first bar brawl in about 20years. Lol I still have teeth marks on my chest from the maniac tuscan who bit me . Good times.

@ajoajoajoaj

5 жыл бұрын

@Ilir Cami Those are Cyrillic letters.

@kaioconnor5023

5 жыл бұрын

We also have a different language b/c for a while, we were a different country.

@billfilice6408

4 жыл бұрын

Correct Bon jornu or plaja are dalmation forms

This was an exceptional video! Thank you so much! I want to see more sicilian videos! You should do a video series teaching Sicilian dialect!

Sir: Your Presentation here is very interesting. Thank you very much!!

I can relate so much to this video! My dad was born in Sicily (Alessandria della Rocca, in Agrigento), and my mom was from mainland Italy (Marche). They moved to America when I was a year old, so growing up, I was obviously taught american english in school, but only standard Italian at home (my dad never even told me anything about the Sicilian language, or that he could even speak it). So that is why I had no idea that he spoke Sicilian, or how different it was from the standard Italian I was taught. All this changed when I was 10 or so, as my dad invited one of his Sicilian relatives to stay with us for a few weeks. I was totally freaked out when he started talking to him. I honestly thought that he was speaking some bizarre foreign language. Now remember that he never took the time to tell me anything at all about Sicilian, so hearing him speak for the first time some freaky unintelligible language all of a sudden came as a shock to me. At first, I thought that he had this deep-dark secret identity, and that he was from this unknown foreign country! I mean, I literally could not understand one thing he was saying when he was speaking Sicilian with his relative! Funny thing about this is that even after I was educated on this subject, my dad still refused to speak Sicilian with my mom and me. To this day, he only speaks it with his Sicilian relatives... and he's not really given me any reason as to why. I almost think that he's somehow embarassed about it... which I find kinda sad.

@ivanolamicela5193

5 жыл бұрын

I can relate to your dad. I was born in Sicily and immigrated to the US at the age of eight. Both parents only spoke Sicilian - ever, in the house. I learned American English and growing up with my sister only spoke English with each other- still do. Speaking Sicilian does not benefit you if you call yourself Italian, as it is an inferior language. Most everyone in Sicily will be able to understand an Italian visitor from the north, but not vice-versa, and since most job opportunities are found in the mainland of Italy, I don't find valuable reason to speak or learn Sicilian. On a side note, I will only teach my son proper Italian.

@user-bk1nn9ne4d

5 жыл бұрын

@@ivanolamicela5193 then you will loose your beautiful sicilian language, which is more noble than standard italian

@ivanolamicela5193

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-bk1nn9ne4d If they ever need to make another mafia type movie, I'm all for playing a part. But that's about the extent of where speaking sicilian will come in handy.

@giuliocaparra27

5 жыл бұрын

Comu rinnigari i probbj radici.. je 'u m'scordarò mai u dialettu du miu e 'un a finirò mai 'e lu parrari.. anche si vivu a Roma. Si i cristiani giuvani vonnu parrari cummia han 'e 'mparari a capiri u dialettu du miu, u talianu u parru sulu cu' i genti adulti. Saluti da Calabbria!

@cathyvento7446

5 жыл бұрын

i am very upset and ANGRY our grandparents never spoke or taught us how to speak italian. they insisted on speaking english.. TERRIBLE .. the italian language and culture would still be thriving if they had passed their language and traditions onto their grandchildren. makes me very sad.

That was fun and educational ... thank you! I’m a Sicilian American.. I grew up with the Sicilian language as well as Standard Italian. Looking at the spelling of the words was eye opening 🌸🙏🏼🌸

@ottolevine978

3 жыл бұрын

The Roman Army consisted of Men from all over the Roman empire. I believe it was Crassus who led his Army to Sicily. The Moors had dark skinned Africans in their Army when they occupied Sicily. The Vikings established a kingdom in Sicily. Venice and Genoa sold Slavs as slaves all through Italy Sicily Sardinia and Corsica. The gene pool runs deep. I would not concentrate or worry about whether someone has one or 2 percent of something. The video was about language anyway.

We went to Sicilia a few months ago, I was surprised because I could not understand whole sentences. Although my Italian is not perfect (my native language is Spanish and from Mexico), on my previous visits to other parts of Italy I was able to communicate well. Still loved how it sounds.

Great video! Thank you 🙏🏼💕

Just came back from Sicily! Loved it so much and you are so right about the dialects!!

This was one of the most adorable videos I've ever seen from you. Don't know why I didn't catch it until now. Bravo.

Bravo metatron. I have been following your channel for some years and only recently found this gem. Grazie mille

I can’t believe how different the languages are, great video!

beautiful video, it's very interesting, i'm sicilian and you have explained perfectly the speech , it's fantastic that you bring the language situation of sicily outside of our region at the other countrys, good job 😉

Sardinian, Friulian and Ladin are considered separate languages (the last two being sister languages of Switzerland's Rumantsch), but Italian dialects can be more different from each other than languages such as Swedish and Norwegian. I leave it to linguists to come up with a definition of a language versus a dialect that works in every situation.

Thank you I enjoyed this video very much

Thank you for this, so helpful!!

He's sicilian so he can use these exaggerated Godfather-esque mafiosi characters but goddamn it if it's not a stereotype

@glenbellefonte9620

4 жыл бұрын

We got enough snowflakes right here in America. Who cares if it's a stereotype and who cares who is racist. Fuck your feelings, nigga

@shiningshores4808

4 жыл бұрын

No shit

@masterjunky863

3 жыл бұрын

@BEST Normal sicilian people hate the mafia

@naughtygawd3269

3 жыл бұрын

@@glenbellefonte9620 Ok Mr. Keyboard Warrior

@IvanIvanov-ni4rs

3 жыл бұрын

@@naughtygawd3269 He's not a keyboard warrior, he just gave you some truth that you apparently can't handle.

Me being a Russian, it really blows my mind, how many different dialects languages and accents you have on such a small territory! I meen, we have a large country and we have just a few accents, not even dialects, and all the difference is in emphasising certain vowels, but never the less everything is more or less intelligible.

@paolotubo74

7 жыл бұрын

because historically we italians like to be conquered unless many other populations. We never had a single revolution against the occupant civilizations. Greeks, Arabs, Normans, French, Spain etc... etc.. They all left something of their culture, languages to us over the centuries.

@auriauri4668

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly! That's what I asked to a russian friend once :D I was like "What? You guys don't have dialects?' I was a little bit surprised because your country is huge, but then I understood that's it's not a matter of size of the countries, but, as Paolo said, It's something that is connected to the history of a country (dominations), its geographic location (we are close to a lot of different countries) and so on..

@user-li8pc7vw6y

7 жыл бұрын

I guess in Russia imperialism is as strong as separatism in europe

@jurii9486

7 жыл бұрын

Ukrainian language has 5 dialects (3 of them in the mountains) and the standard language, which has a couple of its accents very close to each other. Nonetheless any slavic language (West/south/east) is more intelligable than Sicilian to Italian. =)

@unrulycrow6299

6 жыл бұрын

Strega Aura Hi neighbour! Here in France, while the politics established to centralize everything and bring some uniformity to the country kind of reduced the use of dialects and regional languages, the latters are coming back now, and it's pretty funny how different things are depending on where you are. It also reflects the history of the country very well, which is interesting! Of course, this aside, French is a rule and you mainly rely on the accents to determine where one person comes from, but yeah. I appreciate that we both have these particularities on such a small territory! :D

Fascinating intro! Delightful presentation.

Thanks, Metatron! Quest'anno farò il giro della Sicilia con mia famiglia e voglio imparare un po' di sicilianu appunto... Tuo video è uno spasso!

I love the Italians , all of them , and what helps to make them so interesting is that every ten people have their own culture ! - I grew up in a mixed marriage family , my father was from Mola and my mother and her family ( all 100 of them , very close ) are Castellano - my mother considered herself multilingual because she was fluent in several of the dialects ! , but even in the food , I was always made aware of what was Neapolitan and what was Baresi , especially at the holidays . - - a story to illustrate your video beautifully - - I have a cousin who as a child moved to the United States from Sicily . he made a friend , and tried very hard to copy his friends way of speaking , so that when he went to school he could understand , only later to find out that his friend was speaking Italian ! - I have to add one thing , of all the blessings that The Lord God can give , none is greater than having been given a Neapolitan mother !

@dina113east

2 жыл бұрын

My Mother and Father were of Neapolitan ancestry. No one could have loved their children more than my Mother. Both of my parents would do anything for their children. AND of course, the food we were raised on was some of the most delicious food we ever had. My Mother was often told she was not just a good cook, but a true chef. The world is not the same wonderful place without them.

@XX-gy7ue

2 жыл бұрын

@@dina113east , amen

@glittermama

2 жыл бұрын

I am mostly Sicilian but have a Neapolitan grandmother. I learned cooking from watching her; people say I'm a great cook. She and all her siblings and their children, including my father, were musicians. They were happy-go-lucky, with a special sense of humor. They laughed all the time, made fun of each other, and also particularly outsiders, unmercifully. They had names for each other, mostly hilarious. They were so unlike the Sicilians! My brothers have the Neapolitan temperament and musical ability, and I'm more of a Sicilian. I do play Neapolitan tambourine, though.

I come from Como lake and I can speak western lombard dialect (even if i'm young and not many my age speak it nor know it nowadays) I love being able to mantain this language, and just for those who are curious these are the same words in my "dialect": guardare = vardà soldi = dané ragazzo = fiöö / bagaj lavoro - laurà / mesté si - si /sé attento! - ocio! /ociu! mangiare - magnà per favore - per piasè (but has a different connotation, not so polite) di dove sei? - dué ta vegnat? / da duè ca ta seet? andare - nà giù - giö fazzoletto - mantén gallina - galèna / pulèt melanzane - meresgian bello -béll seccatura - braghelada letto - lècc hai capito? - te capì?

@TroyKC

4 жыл бұрын

soldi is just weird to me, as a Spanish speaker, nothing like dinero, or peso, or peseta or even moneda. I can usually understand some Italian but ... soldi? that would have confused the hell out of me.

@Goldenskies__

3 жыл бұрын

@@TroyKC we also have denaro and moneta in Italian.

@michaelm-bs2er

2 жыл бұрын

@@TroyKC Did you ever here of a Roman coin called a Solidus?

@michaelm-bs2er

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting to see some information on the northern dialects here too

Have enjoyed that video , a lot . Thank you.

You legit make the best language videos.

I am from Rome and one of my friends is Sicilian and sometimes he comes up with words in dialect and I have no idea what they mean. So I have to look them up on the internet, or ask him, which usually leads to a ten minutes explanation involving ten more Sicilian words. We have fun though, my fav Sicilian word rn is "Scunzaioucu", which should mean something like "game ruiner", but I'm not entirely sure since his explanation was quite complex 😅

@SarsTheSecond

6 жыл бұрын

I would say GUASTAFESTE. It was in the book from high school. Text about some highschool guys.

@dubbio8707

5 жыл бұрын

Anche "Passa Pitittu" sarebbe "Game Ruiner", però letteralmente significa "Passa Appetito" ovvero, qualcuno che ti fa perdere la voglia ("l'appetito") di fare qualcosa.

@charlesgehring8124

5 жыл бұрын

Could it mean "spoil sport"?

@goroakechi3593

5 жыл бұрын

@@charlesgehring8124 I think this word is supposed to be mean that someone is a bad sport. Sore loser , not a fun game player. Etc

@zampagrilli

5 жыл бұрын

Guastajuocu....game spoiler...Cunzajuocu is one who fixes a game

Nice vid! I have been on Sicilia. And liked it a lot. Especially the slopes of the Etna. They have great wineries there. And the Olive oil is also fantastic. I liked the people as well. Loved the part were you dressed up. Lol

Thank you for the video ... Please, make more.

I watched a lot of your videos and enjoy them tremendously ! I studied basic Italian in Firence and would lovingly give my left kidney to be able to master an Napoletan dialect ...Thank you ;)

3:00 HUMONGOUS WHAT

@Tundra1919

7 жыл бұрын

Crimen Silentii that's my name, Hugh mongous

@BorgheAsAJungler

7 жыл бұрын

How dare you! Disgusting! Disgusting! You just abused a woman!

@am-en2qw

7 жыл бұрын

Crimen Silentii don't touch me! don't touch me! don't touch me!

@davidebonannini640

7 жыл бұрын

he said humongous gazongas, what's unclear?

@KingdomofSmileys

7 жыл бұрын

You just abused a PUHSON OF CUHLAH!!!!

Fascinating! I've been to Sicily last summer and fell in love with it immediately. We stayed in the South-Eastern part and went on various trips, the longest being the one to the Etna. I studied Latin and know a few tiny bits of Italian, but I noticed how different Sicilian is! Wow, fascinating to actually have them compared side by side by a native speaker!

Sooooo interesting! I'm a beginner in Italian and I met someone from Catania so I got interested in the differences between Sicilian and Italian. Thanks for the video!

Great job, very interesting, thank you.

I knew a girl from NYC who was half Sicilian half Irish. How about that for a potent mixture! You pissed her off at your peril let me tell you!!

@tomcasarella6061

5 жыл бұрын

My evil x was Sicilian and Azores Portuguese

@user-zy9yg2eu5t

5 жыл бұрын

Half sicillian half Irish 100% bullshit. Americans are Americans. If she ain't from a place she ain't from a place. Americans always try and give themselves ethnic identities with no understanding of the culture. Fuck off

@yamaotostrike

5 жыл бұрын

She was half shotgun and half RDX?

@Robconnors7253

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-zy9yg2eu5t Accura!

@Robconnors7253

5 жыл бұрын

@Ilir Cami Albania has some beautiful women. .

Miei genitori sono di Campania. I'm relatively fluent in Italian, and understand their dialect quite well because I grew up hearing it. What I found amazing is that when you were doing the word by word comparison, the Sicilian versions were totally foreign. If you had said the Sicilian version first, I would not have been able to translate. But, when you spoke those full sentences at the end of the video, I completely understood. It was as if my brain heard the parts that I could recognize because they were close to Italian or Neapolitan, and then extrapolated the words that made sense to add in, even though I did not understand; and then translated it all into English for me.

This was informative and fun!!

I LOVE your sweater, liked your video immediately before even starting 😶

Haven't you killed Jonny already though? You know, for risking family businesses for a woman...

@SNinjaQK

7 жыл бұрын

i thought he killed mario his nephew/grandson

@breaden4381

7 жыл бұрын

I feel like some day someone should link all of the killings together to create and actual story.

Hi mate! Thanks a lot for this interesting episode. I am Romanian and somehow I can understand a little bit from both dialects. I have never been to Sicilia but I hope one day I will come and visit. Sicilian dialect sounds very nice and so different from common Italian. Thanks again. Grazzie.

Hello Metatron! I am of Sicilian heritage (My grandparents are Sicilian) but I know too little about Sicilia and her culture for my liking. You are one of my favorite channels and I was wondering if you could please make some sort of video on Sicilian history? Keep up the great work! You have fed my passion for learning about History , Culture and Armour since 2017. Thankyou for making such great content, Thanks for reading and take care.

Excellent, thank you.

Italian, Sicilian, English, Japanese... Wow, how many languages Metatron knows?

@secutorprimus

7 жыл бұрын

dyrak55d I think it was... 14?

@jacobpietras9108

7 жыл бұрын

He speaks 7 :) He's made a couple videos about it.

@fisstaschek

7 жыл бұрын

dyrak55d all of them

@theswordofheros5857

7 жыл бұрын

He has an implant in his brain that allows him to communicate with any person on earth in their native tongue

@shannonstrobel6727

7 жыл бұрын

the Metatron is the Voice of God. He speaks ALL Languages XD except maybe Finnish. Cuz nobody can speak Finnish.

Interesante. I didn't even knew they were so many dialectal variations in Sicilian language. These variations are a treasure that I hope never vanishing because are a testimony of the rich history of the island. And I can not finish with the comment without saying that you made my day with the Mafioso impression.

This is such awesome information!!!

Very interesting. Thank you

This is a very informative and funny video. But I have similar expierences with languages and dialects here in the Netherlands. I was raised in the middle of the country, where they speak "normal" Dutch. But my parents are originally from the province of Limburg, where they speak a dialect which is completely different than Dutch. There are some words in it that are the same, but a lot of words are influenced by German, French and typical Limburgian words. Most people in the Netherlands cannot understan Limburgian (the ones living above the major rivers can't), but I can and I speak it as well.

@couchcamperTM

7 жыл бұрын

same with my language, low German. spoken from the dutch border to the Polish border, every region has its own dialect. My mother was raised only 12km away from my father, but whatever she says using the ö umlaut, he said it with "oi" Pretty much every small village has a unique style, but we can all understand each others dialect. except for hardcore Frisian, maybe - and Saterland Platt is too different^^ BTW I can read and understand "normal" dutch and even the language of Luxembourg, but I don't understand much when I only listen to it. unless the speaker is very slow. Limburg, is that where they actually say "G" instead of "Gch" ? you know, the famous dutch g sound, that reminds foreigners of a sore throat? ;)

@breaden4381

7 жыл бұрын

Hardcore Frisian... I've heard it's similar to Old English.

@couchcamperTM

7 жыл бұрын

the northern Frisian sure is - it's anglic.

@DreamIncorporation

7 жыл бұрын

couchcamper Not only that, but it puts some extra vowels to Dutch words, making it more lyrical. And, like Chinese, there are some words that change in meaning in how the vowels are pronounced.

@silviamic9295

7 жыл бұрын

Italians take it to an other level 😹 we also have Wikipedia and Facebook In dialect, bilingual road signs and books, you can marry with the mayor reading the laws in your dialect (not in all the part of Italy). In some places people talks language that are quite similar to Latin (Sardinian, Ladino and Friulano) or German (search for Cimbrian Language on Wikipedia, it's fuking awersome) or Romanian, in Apulia we have some villages that talk in arbëreshe, that is ancient Albanian, and griko that is fukin ancient Greek😅

The only thing I noticed and we can agree on it. Arabs, Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, and Maltese people They all use their hands When they talk And if they get angry you cannot understand a single word from them . 😂😂😂😂😂 Greetings from Saudi Arabia ♥️🇸🇦✈️

@alichinocalcabrina7282

2 жыл бұрын

and jews too. I noticed manhattan jews, when talking, gesticulate exactly like sicilians, moving in the same way the hands between themselves and the person in front

@emerdigiorgio3594

2 жыл бұрын

@ a...Americans gesticulate too!!!

@bsloow

2 жыл бұрын

Sicilians and Arabs are really similar, sharing more than 300 years of history togheter

@bsloow

2 жыл бұрын

Sicily was an Emirate back in the days, and Sicilian language has many Arabic words in it

@terrymiller111

2 жыл бұрын

Too much of that Mediterranean water. That's the common link! :-/

Great stuff! Hilarious. Link Vs Don Coleone! Had me in stitches. Great stuff. Your videos are great. Your English sounds like English English did you live there?

Just love all you're stuff!!!

I’m from Salento (south-eastern Italy) and we actually speak a variety of Sicilian. That’s pretty funny because my boyfriend is from Catania and we both talk our dialect and we still understand each other. It’s quite interesting for us (we both are linguistics lovers) seeing how many words and structures have in common speaking our native language. And yes, Sicilian is uncomprehensible for someone who speaks Standard Italian and who’s from the North of Italy, so I tend to consider it as a proper language (as my dialect, Salentino, which could be considered as a language due to the fact there’s literature and music, so a written tradition in Salentino dialect)

@Kinotaurus

7 ай бұрын

Viva la pizzica!

Finalmente l'hai fattoooo! :D Potresti forse fare un video in cui parli solo in siciliano? xP

Great video! My dad’s family is Sicilian, mom’s family is from Naples. My dad was in the US Navy and WWII and visited his grandparents in Mineo

This is exactly what I was looking for 👍🏽

@metatronyt

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear

So what i got from this video is. Metatron needs to star in a mobster movie.

@Linck192

7 жыл бұрын

ikr, his character is so cool

@Sylkenwolf

7 жыл бұрын

Forest elfranger my thoughts exactly!

@esmeraldagreen1992

5 жыл бұрын

Nah he is trying to educate you bumpkins.

I spent some months in Sicily many years ago. I learned some standard Italian, but then again, the words I remember I know I say a bit differently because of the accent in Sicily where I was at, specifically near Catania. Sometimes, I miss Bella Sicilia...the last part made me laugh because the accent brought back memories. Un mille di grazie!

Great video! My family is from both Palermo and Marche and this helped me, as an Italian American.

I Love You! * My mom is Roman and my dad, Sicilian, Palermo. My grandparents were from the old country. I enjoy you so much! I appreciate all that I learn from you*:) You make me laugh and I will always tune in to your videos and learn something new every day *:)!

@carlosvega4704

2 жыл бұрын

Your last name tells you where you come from.

OUTSTANDING!

The amount of cognates that i can see with Italian as a Spaniard is amazing

Fantastic! Very interesting!

You are brilliant 🥰

So dialects can have dialects?

@giorgioj4557

7 жыл бұрын

ctam79 as you can see, yes.

@Arcanua

7 жыл бұрын

Chinese is a good example of this, but yes.

@CommanderJonny

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they're called sub-dialects I think. Besides the Chinese example already given, just think of all the different dialects of English (British, American, Canadian, etc.), many of which have their own 'dialects'. Though it's harder to shift through this in English, since people sometimes confuse accents and dialects.

@ctam79

7 жыл бұрын

A dialect has its own distinct vocabulary. An accent is just distinct pronounciation of the same vocabulary.

@CommanderJonny

7 жыл бұрын

I know that, that's why I said some people sometimes confuse someone with a different accent as speaking a different dialect. I still stand by my argument for English dialects, as someone from the United States would use different words than someone from Great Britain, or someone from South Africa, or someone from Australia or New Zealand. While it may not be as... distinct as dialects of other languages, it's still present, and distinct enough in my opinion.

So fascinating - I learned so much here. I'm American with Sicilian heritage (Sciacca). I went on to study Arabic and went to Morocco. I do not speak Sicilian but from a bit of research I did, I discovered the influence of Arabic and Berber on Italian - the word 'mafia' itself comes from Arabic really. It's interesting to think of all the cultures exerting influence on Sicily.

@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

2 жыл бұрын

Sicily is super interesting and one of the richest places on earth historically IMO Such an ancient melting pot since the dawn of times, Romans, Greeks, French, Spaniards, Berbers, etc

@esti-od1mz

2 жыл бұрын

The arabic influence is small, and the berber one doesn't even exists... about the word "mafia": it is probably of romance origin. In Tuscan, there is the word "Maffia", which means "Misery". Since in ancient times "Mafia" was written "Maffia", it is more logic to think that the word doesn't have an arabic origin. Even more, there is no arabic word related to the concept of "Mafia"

@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

2 жыл бұрын

@@esti-od1mz As to the word Mafia I'm not certain, nor is anyone really, but I agree it's probably from romance origin, that being said, I've seen some of your other comments fighting this false narrative that Sicilians are "black/African", etc, which is granted, I'm not saying Sicilians are Arabic or anything (which isn't a bad thing by any means just wanted to clarify that) but Arabs ruled Sicily from 831 to 1091, and there were both Arabs and Berbers, some admixture obviously occured, as with any of Sicily's rulers, to varying degrees, I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure Sicilians are sitting at a mostly "Italian" gene makeup, with some strokes of Arabic, Berber, French, Spanish, Greek, etc anyways, people usually have this miscontrued idea of territory takeovers, as opposed to the reality which is these were mostly ruling elites who didn't mingle with locals much.

@esti-od1mz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 Your Comment is a well-Thought one. I want to be clear: I'm not racist at all. Unfortunately, some people want to manipulate History for their nationalistic reason, or sometimes they simply don't know History well... because of that, it happened to me to correct wrong opinions. Yes, Sicily is mostly Italic and Greek-anatolian (more correctly "near eastern"), with 6% of the sicilian DNA probably of MENA origin: as much as most of Spain and Portugal. We know that from recent studies... so I can't understand some nationalistic claim. About the word "Mafia": we don't know its etimology for sure, but the arabic origin is probably wrong because 1)we can't find an arabic word with a similar meaning 2) the arabic words suggested don't fit the phonetic "sicilian way" of adapting arabic phonemes. 3) it is pushed mostly by arabic nationalists. Furthemore, only 300 sicilian words have arabic origin, and most of them are used in agricolture. I know that my comment will be too long, but I'm really passionate about my island. Thanks for your comment

@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

2 жыл бұрын

@@esti-od1mz hey I'm passionate about your island too, as a fellow islander myself, greetings from Mallorca, Spain ... Sicily is definitely on my bucket list hopefully will visit it soon

I know the video is a couple years old but it's so good! My mom was from Siderno , my dad from close to Palermo (Misilmerei) . At 6:52 when you and your "alter ego :)" were comparing Italian to Sicilian made me laugh so hard....BRAVO! Mi sono escritto al tuo canale

VERY EDUCATIONAL.

You look real good in that suit.

@metatronyt

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks ^^

@dexterzplace5553

7 жыл бұрын

Metatron I was thinking he went full Italian mobster on us, like Al Capone was gonna sho up with his little friend Tommy

@pepperpeppington6267

7 жыл бұрын

Praise KEK!

@clare5one

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, blue is his color.

@pinasabatino5804

6 жыл бұрын

yeah i agree with you get on with the fricking show boring😛

"Ah-babadee boopie." - Peter Griffin

@zacharyjohns1157

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheBucketSkill incel

@fuferito

4 жыл бұрын

"Che cosa?" -Italian deli owner

@ettoremorabito860

4 жыл бұрын

It's stale now!

@Matteo-os9tn

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. not funny, didn't laugh

@ettoremorabito860

4 жыл бұрын

Me too idiot! Even if I understand the teasing that was a show!You're just an Idiot!

love your videos. grazie

Love this!!