Originally Posted by Butchie1788
So Barese is difficult to understand to a Native Sicilian from Sicily or Native Neapolitan from Naples or a Calabria but to make the question a little easier can a Native Neapolitan From Naples and a Native Sicilian from Sicily Understand Each other 100 percent or it’s more like 80 percent they they understand each other


Neapolitan and Sicilian are essentially two entirely different languages that descended separately from Latin. A native Neapolitan who has never been into contact with a Sicilian probably won't be able to understand him and vice versa.