We have always spoken of Sicily as a land at the center of the world, a crossroads of cultures and peoples. For millennia, Sicily has been home to diverse peoples, who have graced it with art, monuments, roads, aristocratic villas, and theaters, but also with customs, lifestyles, and foods from all over the world.

This proliferation of different cultures and this inherent multiculturalism have inevitably left an indelible mark on the Sicilian language as well, enriching it with a vocabulary of terms and idioms that simply do not exist elsewhere.