"We are extremely satisfied with the unanimous approval of our bill on the protection and promotion of the Neapolitan language. The passage in the council allows our region to equip itself with a law that defends one of the foundations of the cultural identity of our territory. The law provides for the establishment of a scientific committee that will have the task of identifying the most appropriate initiatives, in coordination with the regional council, to enhance an idiom that is currently spoken by seven and a half million people throughout the world. Alongside the committee, the Regional Center for Documentation and Studies on the Linguistic and Cultural Identity of Campania will be established with the function of promoting study initiatives and creating a historical vocabulary, as well as an audio-video library dedicated to the subject". This is what regional councilor of the Greens Francesco Emilio Borrelli, promoter of the law to protect the Neapolitan language, says. "The new law will also allow the creation of dedicated study courses, including at university level. In this regard, the rector of the University of Naples Federico II Gaetano Manfredi told me that, following the approval of the law, the university is available to create a Neapolitan language course. A further initiative that will serve to safeguard a language that risks being contaminated by slang and errors, so much so that it is included by UNESCO in the World Atlas of Languages in Danger. I would like to thank the writer Maurizio de Giovanni, the actor Mariano Rigillo, the professor Pasquale Scialò and the professor Ermete Ferraro who have supported this law from the beginning, also giving me very useful suggestions for writing it”.
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