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In Piazza Armerina an alloglot variety is spoken which bears witness to the long and articulated history of this village.
In Piazza Armerina, as well as in some other villages in central-eastern Sicily, a dialect of Ligurian-Piedmontese derivation is spoken. This language was born from the encounter, which took place between the 11th and 12th centuries, between the local population, whose language was already influenced by Latin, Arabic and Greek, and the Lombard people who arrived following the Normans. A further linguistic influence then came with the dominion of Charles of Anjou in the XIII century, who introduced new terms of French origin, and finally there was also a Spanish influence with the subsequent arrival of the Aragonese.
For these reasons, the dialect spoken in Piazza Armerina is rich in Arabic, French and Catalan terms.
