Welcome Brazil

Teacher: Everton Elieser Dias Silva

Sicilian Language

Sicilian (sicilianu)
Sicilian is a Romance language with about 5 million speakers in Sicily and in parts of Calabria and Puglia in southern Italy. There are also many Sicilians and people of Sicilian origin in the USA, Canada, Australia, Argentina and Germany. In Sicily the majority of Sicilians are bilingual in Sicilian and Italian.
Sicilian is a descendant of Latin brought to Sicily by the Romans after they annexed the island in about 261 BC. Over the years Sicilian has absorbed vocabulary from many different languages, including Greek, Latin, Arabic, French, Lombard, Provençal, German, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, and also from the languages of the pre-Roman inhabitants of the island: the Sicani, Elymi, Siculi and Phoenicians.
Sicilian was first used in writing during the reign of Frederick II (a.k.a. Frederick I of Sicily) between 1198 and 1250.
Today Sicilian is used mainly as a home language. It has no official status and is not used is schools or the media.

Sicilian alphabet
A a B b C c D d E e F f G g H h I i J j L l
M m N n O o P p Q q R r S s T t U u V v Z z
Sample text in Sicilian
Tutti i cristiani nascinu libbiri cu a stissa dignità i diritti. Iddi hannu a raggiuni i cuscienza i hannu a travagghiari 'nzemmula cu spiritu di fratirnità.
Translation
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
  Sicilian language courses, dictionaries, etc.
Related languages
Aranese, Aromanian, Asturian, Catalan, Corsican, French, Firulian, Galician, Genoese, Italian, Jèrriais, Latin, Lombard, Mirandese, Moldovan, Occitan, Piedmontese, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sicilian, Spanish, Venetian, Walloon
Other languages written with the Latin alphabet
Links
Detailed information about the Sicilian language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_language
Lingua siciliana - Silician language information and resources (in Sicilian and Italian)
http://www.linguasiciliana.org/
Arba Sicula - an organization that promotes the language and culture of Sicily
http://arbasicula.org/

Link Sharing

Hello Friends,
I am in Addis Ababa Ethiopia attending to Speak Africa Media Workshop
and Africa Development Forum 2006.
I will like you to check out these sites:
www.speakafrica.org
and The Heart of Africa Project site: www.heartofafrica.com
www.heartofafrica.net

Cheers,
Henry Ekwuruke
Nigeria
+2348076509063

Video from Cantana, Sicily

This is from Belinda in Catana, Sicily. You can see the video by clicking on the link below.
www.volcanoetna.com
You must stay in the Italian version to see the latest eruption from a
few nights ago.Go to photos videos. Click on the picture that says videos
go down the page that says "eruzione 2006 to see an eruption at night -
just a few days ago.

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