Can you understand Sicilian? | #2

In these mini language challenges, we test the mutual intelligibility between Sicilian and other Romance languages! If you're a speaker of French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish or any other Romance Language, let us know if you can understand what word is described in this mini-challenge.

Sicilian is a Romance language that is spoken in the island of Sicily and some parts of Southern Italy. It is a unique dialect of the Italian language, heavily influenced by the Greek, Arabic, and Norman languages due to Sicily's history of foreign domination.

Sicilian has a distinct grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation compared to standard Italian. It has several variations and dialects, which can vary significantly depending on the region.

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[Ecolinguist]

🤓Translation and additional info below:
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Zoccu su?
Chista ‘he na cuasa ca sta nte manu e siebbi pi tagghiari cuasi comu a caitta, vestiti e capiddi.
Avi ru lami ca si unciunu cu un piennu no mienzu.
A criaru gli egiziani e binni usata pi mille anni.
Po iassiri pericolosa se un si usa buanu.
Po’ aviri tagghie differenti e fuaimmi dipende zoccu s’ava fari.
Chiste su e’ fuaibbici.

TRANSLATION:
What's this?
This is a knife held in the hand and used for cutting things like meat, clothing, and rope.
It was created by the Egyptians and has been used for thousands of years.
It can be dangerous if not used properly.
It can have different shapes and sizes depending on what it is used for.
These are scissors.


🤗Big thanks to Gabriele from Sicily!

[fueyesocarbo]

As an Asturleonese speaker I understood nothing, but the -u endings reminded me of my language and it's nice.

[viictor]

Being a native portuguese speaker, speaking fluent french, some italian and some romanian, I can say I understood next to nothing in sicillian.

[esti-odmz]

Specifically, this is sicilian from the Palermo area

[alexandertumarkin]

I learnt Italian, but here I barely understood several words, and that's it.

[Matt-whwj]

As an Italian, I can say I understood almost everything. I've watched many tv series about mafia set in Sicilia though so that's probably why

[mneserbhere]

As Serb, speaking Italian, understood it is used for 1000y and to be used carefully because it is dangerous... but I taught it is knife... couldnt guess it was scissors.

[MegalonioVOD]

Bro i'm literally Sicilian and I struggled on this.

[alovioanidio]

I speak portuguese and I got it. But actually I needed to use some minimal knowledge I have about the language patterns, plus italian, otherwise I couldn't.

[terrasthdeity]

Scissors, the most important tool ever invented

[canular]

Je parle français et je n’ai vraiment rien compris pas un seul mot 😅

[juancarloshernandezhernand]

It was difficult. I thought it would be easy but it wasn't.

[georgegilbert]

Sounds like finnish and italian together!

[heredia]

Only some words, but not the entire text.

[Ilovecookingforsomeone]

It somewhat looks like a combination of italian and corsican. By the way, I don't speak any of them. I just feel it

[pcongre]

"Avi ru lami ca si unciunu cu un piennu no mienzu."
I don't think there was an English translation of this part
(maybe ~it has two blades that separate with a fold in the middle? ^^)

[Enric.]

It's hard, probably because I'm not used to it. I think I only understood three words. find it easier than Romanian, but harder than Italian.

[Zestieee]

Native Italian speaker but from the north. I understood it perfectly, mainly because I've heard the language many times (from people and from media) although I wouldn't be able to speak it.

[cubamilano]

per noi italiani, almeno leggendolo, è semplice

[gi]

I'm italian of the north, without reading my guess was "cat". Next question thank you very much