Languages of Sicily

Arabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as ( "the eloquent Arabic") or simply '''' ().

Romance language

Indo-European language

Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro

forms of Greek used from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE

Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta

branch of the Afroasiatic language family indigenous to North Africa

Italo-Dalmatian language spoken in Southern Italy

Romance language of northwest France

ancient Semitic language of the Mediterranean

common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world

extinct dialect of the Phoenician language spoken in North Africa and the Western Mediterranean

medieval stage of the Greek language

Albanian dialect spoken in Italy

right|thumb|250px|Approximate locations of the Elymians and their neighbors, the Sicani and the Sicels, in [[Sicily around 11th century BC (before the arrival of the Phoenicians and the Greeks).]] The Sicani or Sicanians were one of three ancient peoples of Sicily present at the time of Phoenician and Greek colonization. The Sicani dwelt east of the Elymians and west of the Sicels, having, according to Diodorus Siculus, the boundary with the last in the ancient Himera river (Salso) after a series of battles between these tribes.

Siculo-Arabic or Sicilian Arabic is a group of Arabic varieties that were spoken in the Emirate of Sicily from the 9th century, persisting under the subsequent Norman rule until the 13th century. However, only one dialect of Siculo-Arabic is still spoken: Maltese. Siculo-Arabic dialects descend from Arabic following the Abbasid conquest of Sicily in the 9th century and gradually marginalized following the Norman conquest in the 11th century.

family of Arabic dialects spoken in the Maghreb

lingua franca of the Mediterranean Basin between the 11th and 19th centuries

written Latin of late antiquity

historical language spoken in northern France

group of Gallo-Italic dialects spoken in central-eastern Sicily

ancient language of the Italian Peninsula