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I think I understand what was meant by that taxonomy statement, but it was wrongly expressed. There is no such clade as "Neapolitan–Sicilian" under Italo–Dalmatian. You have to pick one: either Neapolitan or Sicilian, and then account for the influence of the other. There's no agreement. Italian Wikipedia classifies it as "dialetti campani," i.e. what is called Neapolitan over here (or was that intended as a geographic grouping rather than taxonomic?). The Neapolitan article classifies it as Sicilian! The Sicilian article didn't give a taxonomy as such, only stating that it has two "variants": "Neapolitanized" in the north of Cilento and "of Sicilian type" in the south. Perhaps the latter implies indirectly that it's basically macro-Sicilian, while the north became "Neapolitanized." Johanna-Hypatia (talk) 01:10, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed Italian Wikipedia has two discrete articles: northern "Dialetto cilentano" (classified as Neapolitan) and southern "Dialetto cilentano meridionale" (classified as Sicilian). However, since the whole classification of the Romance languoids' continuum is highly disputed, the only incontrovertible statement would be: "Cilentan is a Romance dialect".--3knolls (talk) 06:01, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
