Cademia Siciliana (; Sicilian Academy) is a transnational non-profit organization founded in 2016 by a group of Sicilian language academics, activists, researchers, and students with the mission to promote the

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through education, research, and activism. The organization has published an orthographical proposal for the Sicilian language, and maintains several Sicilian language research and technology projects. Including translation and language advocacy projects for several popular applications and platforms such as

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and Android Keyboard. In 2021 the group gained attention for their collaboration with

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's Woolaroo, an augmented reality project intended to support regional and minority languages. In May 2018 in order to prepare for the beginning of teaching of Sicilian culture and language in the schools in

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the organisation began providing workshops and materials for schools. These programmes aim to increase awareness regarding glottophobia,

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, and to promote

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in Sicilian. In 2018 and 2019 the organization published an edition in Sicilian of the

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, along with a podcast audio companion to help promote literacy in the language.

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* ''Grazzi'', translation into of

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