Sicilian is a Romance language spoken on Sicily and in parts of southern Calabria and Apulia on the Italian mainland. It developed from Latin in its own right and is not a dialect of Italian; UNESCO lists it as a vulnerable language, and estimates of speakers generally fall around four to five million, though most also speak Italian and everyday use is declining among younger people. Sicilian carries layers of vocabulary from the island's many rulers, including Greek, Arabic, Norman French, Catalan and Spanish. Its literary pedigree is considerable: the Sicilian School of poets at the thirteenth-century court of Frederick II produced some of the earliest lyric poetry in an Italian Romance tongue, influencing Dante. The language has no single standard orthography, though the Latin alphabet is used.
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