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Sicily, with its complex social, cultural, political, and religious history due to its several foreign dominations, is a true mosaic of linguistic communities. It is very difficult to establish a link between each period of foreign domination and its specific language. Sicily’s inhabitants have been Sicels, Sicanians, Elymians, Greek, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, French, and Spanish, and the Sicilian language has been influenced by each of these civilizations.
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Lanzafame, I. (2015). Linguistic Contaminations in Sicily: From the Roman Rule to the Present. In: Karagoz, C., Summerfield, G. (eds) Sicily and the Mediterranean. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137486936_6
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