lang_description: "Sicilian is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. It is also spoken in southern and central Calabria, in the southern parts of Apulia, Salento and Campania, on the Italian peninsula.",
classification: null,
dialect_varieties: "Western Sicilian
Central Metafonetica
Southeast Metafonetica
Ennese
Eastern Nonmetafonetica
Messinese
Aeolian
Pantesco
Southern and Central Calabrian
Southern Apulian
Cilindano
",
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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language: {
code_id:10873,
featured: 0,
cached_documentation_score:-1,
google_group_url: null,
simplified_level: null,
coordinates: "",
updated_at: "2017-11-24 14:06:27",
speaker_attitude: "",
government_support: "",
institutional_support: "",
_other_languages_used: null,
domains_of_use: "",
speakers_worldwide: "5000000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
speakers_worldwide_year: null,
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bibliography_of_locations: "",
user_submission: "Spoken by majority of population, but lacks a common orthografic norm (which Cadèmia Siciliana is trying to provide, lacks official recognition in its own land (because Italy hasn't ratified yet the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML)), thus it lacks official teaching in schools, and new generations are gradually losing it.",