Recent posts about Loyalton, California on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Loyalton is mentioned 20 times on our forum: Latest news from Loyalton, CA collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: Irish (13.0%), American (12.5%), German (6.5%), Norwegian (6.0%), Italian (5.5%), English (4.0%). Current Local Time: PST time zone. Elevation: 4936 feet.
Sicilian Culture and the Sicilian Language. Sicilian is a Romance language spoken in Sicily, although today Sicily is a region of Italy, the island was once a city-state in its own right, and as the Kingdom of Sicily ruled from Palermo over southern Italy, Sicily, and Malta.icilian is estimated to have millions of speakers. However, it remains very much a home language spoken among peers and close associates. The regional Italian dialect has encroached on Sicilian, most evidently in the speech of the younger generations.
Including the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries (such as Switzerland and Albania) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is around 85 million. Italian has been reported as the fourth most frequently taught foreign language in the world, although this is disputed.talian is a Romance language, and is therefore a descendant of Vulgar Latin. Standard Italian is based on Tuscan, especially its Florentine dialect, and is therefore an Italo-Dalmatian language, to which Sicilian and the extinct Dalmatian also belong, among a few others.