Study the Sicilian language in Sicilian language: the no of academics

John

By John

The teachers of the Sicilian universities experts in the field of sociolinguistic and teaching of languages, in a note, “ask to stop the race towards the training abyss in which the Sicilian children forced to study not only the ‘Sicilian language’ would find themselves, but also in ‘Sicilian language’».

A bill, signed by some autonomist deputies, in fact provides for establishing the “Sicilian language” as co -officer language, “which consequently -continues the note -should be studied at school and in such a way (grammar and vocabulary in the backpack) to become a language with which to learn also the other school subjects”.

The discussion relating to the approval of a motion which, in line with this bill, asks the Sicilian Region for the recognition of the Sicilian as the official language of the Region and the primary language of education, is also planned in the Council of the Municipalities of the Madonie of tomorrow.

In this regard, linguists, dialectologists, sociolinguists of the universities of Palermo, Messina and Catania and the center of Sicilian philological and linguistic and linguistic studies, an institution appreciated by scholars from all over the world, “ask the Council of the Union of Municipalities not to vote for the motion and to be auditory to be able to illustrate their positions and proposals, the result of decades of study on the linguistic and socio -agent context”.

Scholars consider such a “Sicilian language”, developed at the table and not spontaneously spent by any dialectophone of any place in Sicily, “a mortification of the Sicilian dialectal variety, which constitutes the true linguistic heritage to be safeguarded and enhanced also in schools thanks to law no. 9 of 2011 ». But the greatest fear, certainly not unfounded, is that on the skin of Sicilian children – the teachers conclude – they are trying to play games not only ideological – based on questionable approaches to the concept of “identity” and “autonomy” – but also “strategies of electoral wardrobe”.