Sunday,
April 01, 2007
Italian Becomes Official Language ... of
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
post-war constitution deliberately left out any mention of the
"official" language of
Actually,
Mussolini was trying to give
Yet
still, the Regionality rages on. For Instance,
Federico Bricolo from the Northern League party, said
his nationality, and therefore his language, was not Italian, but Venetian.
Italian Becomes
Language ... of
Blayney Chronicle -
31 March 2007
While it might seem obvious, the Italian-ness of Italian has only just been enshrined in the constitution, with parliament voting this week to state that: "The Italian language is the official language of the Republic".
The seemingly uncontroversial statement was
opposed by 75 members of parliament, including leftists who said it smacked of
cultural imperialism and northern separatists who are suspicious of pretty much
any diktat from
One deputy, Federico Bricolo
from the Northern League party, said his nationality, and therefore his
language, was not Italian but Venetian. He said the dialect of
Franco Russo, of
The change to the constitution, approved by
361 votes to 75, is purely symbolic and does not alter the legal status that other
languages enjoy in parts of
But supporters of the change said it was high
time the language was recognised as a fundamental
part of what made up modern
It was Tuscan dialect - in which Dante wrote
the medieval epic poem the Inferno in the fourteen century - that emerged as
the national language of
The
ANNOTICO Reports Can be Viewed and are Fully Archived
at:
Italia
The
ANNOTICO Reports Can be Viewed at
Italia Mia: http://www.ItaliaMia.com
Blogspot: http://annoticoreport.blogspot.com
Annotico
Email: annotico@earthlink.net