Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Gallo-Italic of Sicily (Italian: Gallo-italico di Sicilia) is a group of Gallo-Italic varieties found in about fourteen isolated communities in central-eastern Sicily. It forms a language island within the Sicilian language and dates back to migrations from Northern Italy during the time of Norman Roger I of Sicily, and which continued under his successors.The towns that were populated by the new immigrants were to become known as the \"Lombard communities\" (or Oppida Lombardorum in Latin language, cumuna lummardi in the Sicilian language). In truth, the colonisers, known as \"Lombards of Sicily\" were not all from today's Lombardy, but most parts of Northern Italy, including Piedmont, Liguria and Emilia—\"Lombardy\" being the name for the whole of Northern Italy in the Middle Ages. Apart from their geographic origin, the one common attribute that the colonisers had was that they brought with them their Gallo-Italic idioms. These idioms were to add to the Gallic influence of the newly developing Sicilian language (influences which also include Norman and Old Provençal), and have been influenced by Sicilian itself over the centuries creating distinctive Gallo-Italic languages."@en }
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- Gallo-Italic_of_Sicily abstract "The Gallo-Italic of Sicily (Italian: Gallo-italico di Sicilia) is a group of Gallo-Italic varieties found in about fourteen isolated communities in central-eastern Sicily. It forms a language island within the Sicilian language and dates back to migrations from Northern Italy during the time of Norman Roger I of Sicily, and which continued under his successors.The towns that were populated by the new immigrants were to become known as the \"Lombard communities\" (or Oppida Lombardorum in Latin language, cumuna lummardi in the Sicilian language). In truth, the colonisers, known as \"Lombards of Sicily\" were not all from today's Lombardy, but most parts of Northern Italy, including Piedmont, Liguria and Emilia—\"Lombardy\" being the name for the whole of Northern Italy in the Middle Ages. Apart from their geographic origin, the one common attribute that the colonisers had was that they brought with them their Gallo-Italic idioms. These idioms were to add to the Gallic influence of the newly developing Sicilian language (influences which also include Norman and Old Provençal), and have been influenced by Sicilian itself over the centuries creating distinctive Gallo-Italic languages.".