It seems to me that Burgundian villagers are greeting with "Bonjour", but there are also other phrases that are distinctively different from Frankish/French in-game dialogues. For Sicilians, I think they rather speak a different language than Italians and Byzantines, but I'm not sure which language it is, as Sicilians include the French-speaking Normans in the campaign scenarios.

I looked up the lyrics to a song to find out it was Corsican, tried a few more and they all are. However, they are for Italian. Are they Corsican, and if so, why? By the way, the songs in question are I cunfirenti, era ne sira I maggiu, and ndrangheta, camurra e Mafia.

Going to Sicily in one month! I can speak very simple, beginner level Italian as I just took a class in university.

But I would really like to improve before my trip!

Any recommendations? What are your favourite podcasts? I enjoy listening to Italian podcasts--although I don't understand everything!

Similar to what occurs now in states such as Mississippi and Alabama, but also in Eastern Europe, and put them in one scene (that I can't find squat about it on r/askreddit askreddit one of the characters writes a letter to Richmond promising him her daughter Elizabeth.

Few questions I had in mind about Italian, the one in the title the most urgently demanding of an answer:

• How many different dialects are there for the Italian language?

• Are Sardinian and Corsican dialects of the Italian language or separate languages altogether?

• In what way do the above mentioned languages differ from "Standard" Italian (whatever standard the language holds, I presume)?

• Are there any other substantial dialects of the language worth mentioning?

Well what is it?

So I've seen a bunch of comments by now questioning whether or not Uncle Nino presents himself genuinely and generally just challenging his authenticity as a real Sicilian/Italian, so I wanted to share some information regarding a few common points of confusion surrounding him. I've seen a lot of people allude to signs indicating his ostensible fraudulence and I think I might be able to help clear up some these very common (and completely understandable) misconceptions that people who haven't been exposed to these specific and sometimes pretty niche pieces of information would have no reason to already know.

1. Vinny saying that Uncle Nino (in addition to not really speaking English) "doesn't really speak Italian either."

-This seems to me to likely be the result of the general confusion surrounding Standard Italian and the majority of regional "dialects" that even today still plagues most of the world including the people of Italy. If Uncle Nino is around 60-70 years old as he seems to be (which makes sense considering he came to the US at 15, and there was a sizeable wave of migration from Sicily to the Tri-State Area during the 1960s and early 70s), odds are low he went to school (primary education wasn't compulsory in Italy until the 1970s and few Southerners, especially rural folk ever went before then), which means his odds of knowing Standard Italian are pretty low, especially if they didn't have a TV (which was the primary way Standard Italian was learned by the majority of Italian citizens, beginning in the 1950s but not fully realized until the 1970s).

Based on the time and place he was raised, Nino likely grew up speaking Sicilian, a Romance language that is distinct from and not mutually intelligible with Standard Italian (aka the Medieval Tuscan language that was chosen as the Kingdom of Italy's lingua franca in the 1860s for practical and political reasons, and that at the time could only be spoken or understood by about 10% of the new nation's populace), and one that developed from Vulgar Latin over time with influence from many other languages (for more detail: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_language).

However despite Sicilian being older than Standard Italian (like nearly all of the regional languages throughout Italy that are referred to colloquially as "dialetti"), for many years the Italian government has propagated the mistruth that all regional languages are simply basterdized forms of Standard Italian that are crude/i

On the morning of the first of September 2004 a 4 years old girl called Denise Pipitone disappeared into thin air while she was playing on the street outside her grandmother's house. The disappearance happened in a little town in the South of Italy called Mazara del Vallo. Denise case quickly became infamous in Italy and to this day her family is still searching for her.

*** I'm sorry for any mistakes, English is not my native language but I hope everything is clear. I did a post on Denise a year ago but wanted to write it better and add some new information

• The disappearance

On the first of September 2004 Denise was playing with her little cousins ​​in the street (between the few meters that separated her maternal aunt's house and the house where her grandmother was preparing food for lunch). At some point her aunt called her children inside because launch was ready; Denise was left alone in the quiet street Via la Bruna, waiting for her grandmother to call her too. It's 15 minutes to 12 and it's the last time anyone saw her. After that Denise disappeared into thin air.

• A possible sighting?

The newspapers, the tv broadcast 'Chi l'ha visto?' and the family engaged in a relentless search with the police: dozens of tips were quickly received. On October 18, more than a month after her disappearance, a security guard on duty for a security firm reported that he saw a group of nomads with children in front of a bank in Milan, one of whom looked strikingly similar to Denise . The TV broadcasted the video of the surveillance cameras that showed a little girl who was asking an adult, presumably her mother: "Where are you taking me?". The woman called her 'Danas', a mispronunciation of 'Denise', perhaps. Denise mother Piera seemed to recognize her daughter, but while investigators sifted through the area to look for them, the nomads were already gone.

• The hidden family truth

Investigations continued tirelessly, but the more days had passed, the more the search for the missing child became the search for a culprit; in the prosecutor's rooms the investigators listened to friends, relatives and acquaintances of Denise parents (Toni Pipitone and Piera Maggio). It was her mother, completely unprepared to turn her private life around in front of a handful of strangers, to reveal that Denise's biological father was not her husband Toni, but a man with whom she had an extramarital affair. Not long after the news ended in all the newspapers and, in

Hello there to all people in the community! I am looking for a Sicilian Speaker/a real Sicilian to help my friend and I create a Sicily Discord Server, because we want to get all the information correctly, and maybe use some translations as well. Thank you very much!

My discord is: ShadowSlash#2302

The discord invite is: https://discord.gg/fmM4STUuUJ

This post talks about sexual assault and genocide. This is a content warning.

In this post, I will give Wes Morriston’s argument against divinely mandated genocide with some revisions to strengthen it. I will then argue that only does the Bible command genocide – and for this it is morally repugnant – but that this command has real-world consequences. The conclusions for the post are thus:

1. The Bible commands genocide.
2. The Bible is commanding something immoral.
3. The Bible therefore undermines a Classical Theism
4. This position – that the Bible commands genocide – has led to genocides.

What is Genocide?

“Genocide constitutes the crime of crimes.”

Amnesty International says that genocide is “any one of a number of acts aimed at the destruction of all or part of certain groups of people; it is this intent that distinguishes genocide from other crimes against humanity.” Amnesty International says that it will prosecute any of the following as genocide so long as the intention is to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group:

1. Killing members of a group.
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
3. Deliberately inflicting on a group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within a group.
5. Forcibly transferring children of a group to another group.

This is a legal understanding of genocide, but I will treat it as a moral understanding as well.

The Bible Commands Genocide

>You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, the livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. Thus, you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of the nations here (Deut. 20:14-15)

These are the instructions, given by Moses, as to what is to be done with the Canaanites. These commands are additional to him telling his followers that the Canaanites ought to be shown no mercy and utterly destroyed (Deut. 7:10-2). Moses continues:

>You shall annihilate them – the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites – just as the LORD your God has commanded, so that they may not teach you to do all the abhorrent things that they do for their gods, and thus sin against the LORD your God (Deut. 20:17-18).

Moses is guilty of a commanding a genocide – with God’s expre