The Team

  • Nick Panzarella

    Sicilian-American from Houston, Texas where he raises his son Sicilian. He has a YouTube channel, “Sicilian with Nick”, where he shares his journey with the Sicilian language. Graduated in linguistics, he has worked with many minority languages ​​and wants to see a future with more linguistic diversity.

  • Salvatore Longhitano

    Sicilian student, writer, poet, amateur translator and over-all Sicilian language enthusiast. He is the creator and mod of r/sicilianu where he teaches Sicilian and shares works translated into standard Sicilian.

  • Giancarlo Antonucci

    Sicilian, doctoral candidate in applied mathematics at the University of Oxford, and a researcher at the British national nuclear fusion laboratory in Culham. He works on various IT projects for the Sicilian language.

  • Alessio Mistretta

    Born in Alcamo April 21st 2001.

    A geography student with a passion for languages, phonetics, and writing.

  • Ilaria Cassibba

    A language teacher (Russian, Spanish, English, and Sicilian), Ilaria creates content about the Sicilian language on the Instagram account @Sikelia_Lang. She also produes the podcast “Comu Veni Si Cunta”, the only podcast in Hyblean Sicilian.

  • Giulia Sorrentino

    Originally from Marsala, she’s taught Sicilian for three years to the Sicilian diaspora in the United States with Italian Charities of America. She’s passionate about her language and culture, even if she lives far from her homeland.

  • r/sicilianu

    Subreddit where Sicilians write in Sicilian. The comrades there were fundamental in organizing Sicilian Week.