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.
@rainbowvixen14298 ай бұрын
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. 😹
@cjohnson434211 ай бұрын
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.
@giannabella91833 ай бұрын
Me too ❤
@Catalin2024Ай бұрын
Este destul de asemanator cu limba română! 😮 Și accentul seamănă.
@meletcl Жыл бұрын
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_ApeАй бұрын
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.
@eduardocarbonellbelando6865 Жыл бұрын
it sounds like a mixture of catalan and italian . An incredible language.
@robertaricci24002 жыл бұрын
Basic Sicilian Language Course on Udemy: www.udemy.com/course/sicilian/?referralCode=5A40D996F2AD65749A34
@morgananastasi94722 жыл бұрын
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!
@aristobrat49872 жыл бұрын
how rude that the auto translate says italian >: (
@bettyloforese42062 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Took me back to the days with my family.
@Sigridovski2 жыл бұрын
They also speak some Italian here, don't they?
@emanueletardino854510 ай бұрын
One of the senior speaks more Italian than Sicilian
@ezebentivegna16762 жыл бұрын
Sounds like home
@danielofinan50712 жыл бұрын
My grandma and her family came from Leonforte/Assoro. Proud to be Sicilian!
@TheKeKe3132 жыл бұрын
This video sounds like spaghetti! ☺😋🥰
@antoninacawley79492 жыл бұрын
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.
@justinwinn012 жыл бұрын
God bless you
@cjohnson434211 ай бұрын
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
@dbrown94952 жыл бұрын
I don't understand a word but I can relate
@almaouguelmim97782 жыл бұрын
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 .
@jf70752 жыл бұрын
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
@thewebhorse2 жыл бұрын
You're right. Really they talked a mix of Italian and dialect.
@juansanchez90193 жыл бұрын
I speak Spanish and I understand
@fucktugal_.y._fucktalunya2 жыл бұрын
El pueblo siciliano es como el árbol del carrubbo, sus brechas son fuertes y llegan muy lejos, pero sus raíces son enormes y profundas.
@aoneballers3 жыл бұрын
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._fucktalunya2 жыл бұрын
Really? 🤨
@eeliasb37223 жыл бұрын
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...
@rinoferraro21263 жыл бұрын
Theres Calabrese dialect within.
@emanueletardino854510 ай бұрын
‘U calabrisi assumigghia a ‘u sicilianu, but they are all sicilians
@williamlenihan75363 жыл бұрын
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.
@Sigridovski3 жыл бұрын
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.
@thewebhorse2 жыл бұрын
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.
@cjohnson434211 ай бұрын
I miss the humor, my grandparents used to rib each other in the most gracious manner
@microwaveuptheass3 жыл бұрын
Que cosa ?
@billowen98233 жыл бұрын
Thank You I Enjoyed This Video!!!!!!!!!!
@Pasquale-Ragone3 жыл бұрын
Un saluto a tutti l'emittenti
@abdelazizalmoutaouakil12993 жыл бұрын
Sicilians definitely are arabs they are like us if i put my grandfather there you will think that he is Sicilian
@tinaorifici-hasan8323 жыл бұрын
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!
@sufiboy45973 жыл бұрын
@Spotek lol my friend did 23and me he was 5% North African, his Sicilian Australian.
@sufiboy45973 жыл бұрын
@Spotek 😂 okay
@esti-od1mz2 жыл бұрын
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
@samufaus22 жыл бұрын
@@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
@matthewgalati18703 жыл бұрын
Sicilians are the "suffering people." Our morals are so strong that we suffer constantly in each generation.
@matthewgalati18703 жыл бұрын
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-hasan8323 жыл бұрын
Matthew Galati Galati, I know many Galati's! Is your family from Tortorici perhaps?
@matthewgalati18703 жыл бұрын
@@tinaorifici-hasan832 No. My family is from Partinico.. It is a small town close to Palermo. Happy New Year.
@tonymanfredi68444 жыл бұрын
rispettu!
@tonymanfredi68444 жыл бұрын
Trùoppu Bedda!!
@glittermama4 жыл бұрын
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).
@fabrizioprisinzano3674 жыл бұрын
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
@eduarddumitru87614 жыл бұрын
It sounds like Romanian.
@lars61044 жыл бұрын
Man in the striped shirt looks like my papa lmao
@99DUVETICA4 жыл бұрын
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.
@Dave-lr2wo4 жыл бұрын
God how annoying. Take me to Scandinavia, please.
@santamariadelfiore33434 жыл бұрын
🙏🥇👏👏💓💓💎💗💗🥰🥰💖😘😘👏👏💓💎💗😘🥰🥰💓💓🙏🙏🥰💖😘😘
@tonivullo5 жыл бұрын
paisani a cefalu...
@muntaserbarsoom60975 жыл бұрын
I feel like home and I don't understand a thing 😭 my family speaks Aramic. They are just the same, like my people🥰
@Donknowww3 жыл бұрын
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
@cjohnson434211 ай бұрын
@@Donknowwwyou are right and I appreciate my own kind
@Jens08805 жыл бұрын
Note that they are speaking Italian here and there in the video.
@muntaserbarsoom60975 жыл бұрын
It sounded like Italian but it is not ... They talk different ... They have their own culture... Salute from North Iraq.
@danilaird83604 жыл бұрын
It is Italian.
@emanueletardino854510 ай бұрын
@@danilaird8360no, è siciliano, con qualche parola italiana dovuta al fatto che ovunque si parla italiano in Sicilia
@vincarcin5 жыл бұрын
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.
@cjohnson434211 ай бұрын
God, you made me cry....
@oiurehj5 жыл бұрын
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.
@manitheman08062 жыл бұрын
well said
@mariachiara26385 жыл бұрын
Dda’ u lassaiu u cori
@cjohnson43425 жыл бұрын
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
@Gabpt5 жыл бұрын
I swear the old lady at 0:20 is the feminine version of the notorious mafioso Toto Riina
@giuseppeg36725 жыл бұрын
La signora hai ragione, era piu megghiu con la lira xd
@artt97175 жыл бұрын
Sicilians are difficult people to get along with. They always feel disrespected, are terribly untactfully blunt, and compete against other family members throughout life.
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Sounds like Latin language with Greek accent
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.
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. 😹
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.
Me too ❤
Este destul de asemanator cu limba română! 😮 Și accentul seamănă.
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...
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.
it sounds like a mixture of catalan and italian . An incredible language.
Basic Sicilian Language Course on Udemy: www.udemy.com/course/sicilian/?referralCode=5A40D996F2AD65749A34
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!
how rude that the auto translate says italian >: (
Beautiful. Took me back to the days with my family.
They also speak some Italian here, don't they?
One of the senior speaks more Italian than Sicilian
Sounds like home
My grandma and her family came from Leonforte/Assoro. Proud to be Sicilian!
This video sounds like spaghetti! ☺😋🥰
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.
God bless you
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
I don't understand a word but I can relate
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 .
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
You're right. Really they talked a mix of Italian and dialect.
I speak Spanish and I understand
El pueblo siciliano es como el árbol del carrubbo, sus brechas son fuertes y llegan muy lejos, pero sus raíces son enormes y profundas.
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
Really? 🤨
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...
Theres Calabrese dialect within.
‘U calabrisi assumigghia a ‘u sicilianu, but they are all sicilians
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.
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.
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.
I miss the humor, my grandparents used to rib each other in the most gracious manner
Que cosa ?
Thank You I Enjoyed This Video!!!!!!!!!!
Un saluto a tutti l'emittenti
Sicilians definitely are arabs they are like us if i put my grandfather there you will think that he is Sicilian
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!
@Spotek lol my friend did 23and me he was 5% North African, his Sicilian Australian.
@Spotek 😂 okay
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
@@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
Sicilians are the "suffering people." Our morals are so strong that we suffer constantly in each generation.
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.
Matthew Galati Galati, I know many Galati's! Is your family from Tortorici perhaps?
@@tinaorifici-hasan832 No. My family is from Partinico.. It is a small town close to Palermo. Happy New Year.
rispettu!
Trùoppu Bedda!!
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).
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
It sounds like Romanian.
Man in the striped shirt looks like my papa lmao
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.
God how annoying. Take me to Scandinavia, please.
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paisani a cefalu...
I feel like home and I don't understand a thing 😭 my family speaks Aramic. They are just the same, like my people🥰
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
@@Donknowwwyou are right and I appreciate my own kind
Note that they are speaking Italian here and there in the video.
It sounded like Italian but it is not ... They talk different ... They have their own culture... Salute from North Iraq.
It is Italian.
@@danilaird8360no, è siciliano, con qualche parola italiana dovuta al fatto che ovunque si parla italiano in Sicilia
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.
God, you made me cry....
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.
well said
Dda’ u lassaiu u cori
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
I swear the old lady at 0:20 is the feminine version of the notorious mafioso Toto Riina
La signora hai ragione, era piu megghiu con la lira xd
Sicilians are difficult people to get along with. They always feel disrespected, are terribly untactfully blunt, and compete against other family members throughout life.