I‘m Italian?

will remain as a literary language and not alive . Dystopia, also with regard to the linguistic scenario, can be useful to prevent the worst from happening. Languages disappear because the nation in which they are spoken loses power, not for aesthetic or even linguistic reasons. This was the case for the Greek language, after the globalization of Alexander the Great, obviously for the Latin language, then for the French of the philosophers, from the nineteenth century for English. It happened at a national level for the illustrious Sicilian, the true mother tongue of Italian poetry, declined with the end of the Norman Swabian Kingdom (1250) and with the domination of the French and Spanish, a legacy collected by the free Municipalities of Tuscany, in particular from Florence, Dolce Stil Novo and then Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio.

Update on the health of the “digital natives” Italian language.

by Mariagrazia Pia