Check out the original communication skills of the Sicilians.
Listen to a native Sicilian speaker, enjoy the fun animated gestures photographed beautifully!
Get to know the meaning of gestures in six different languages - Italiano, Deutsch, 中文, English, Türkçe and Español!
Get initiated into the non-verbal world of a communication culture having evolved through centuries and even a secret language of the Mafia.
Send your favourite gestures as an animated GIF via social media or whatever you like to your friends!
The app was created and realized collaboratively with great engagement and is ad free. You can donate if you like it and want to join in.
The project has been made in remembrance of our friend Prof. Dr. Fabio Oliveri († 2014, age 77) from Palermo (Italy), expert of Sicilian culture, history & ancient languages. Sources and more information.
We have even created posters and postcards. You can download the Sicilian Gestures App poster here (A2 format). If you like to get a professional printout, we will be happy to send you one (A2 format, CHF 20.-), contact us.
The Sicilian Gestures app is available as a Google Play Store app (android) and even as a Web App for iPhone & android. It is for free and contains no ads!
In Sicily gestures have been used as an additional language for a long time. Sicilians are able to communicate without words! They talk with hand signs, sometimes in combination with other parts of their body. App sources and further information, check out also our blog (su-pa.net) for more interesting details: Introduction to Sicilian Gestures, Gestures in Sicily / La Gestualità dei Siciliani
We are proud to present you our Sicilian Gestures' app!
Head, Concept, Design, Photographer
Geographer, safety engineer, former Sicilian tour guide, founder of ubub & su-pa.net
English
Biologist, bilingual teacher, native English speaker and translator
Music Composition, Musician
Full stack artist, performer, musician from Uster, Switzerland
Sicilian Speaker
Construction worker and Sicilian farmer, lives in Switzerland & Sicily, IT
Sicilian, Italian, Testing, Quality Improvement
Expert of traditional dishes and local Sicilian products, lives in Palermo, IT
Italian
Italian language and culture teacher
Turkish
Turkish culture teacher and English language teacher, lives in İzmir, TR
Spanish
Spanish teacher and co-founder of Proeducado, from Santo Domingo
App-Store Text by Karin Gutzwiller-Schreier, founder of
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