Reprinted from International Decade of Indigenous Languages
On the occasion of the International Mother Language Day 2024 as Accademia Napoletana a scientific group to promote and teach Neapolitan language Neapolitan, we introduce to the actual situation of a vulnerable language in Italy: Neapolitan, a mother tongue that is not taught in schools, and abandoned to social and cultural degradation. A language that has more than seven centuries of literature but which is not concretely promoted or taught. A very famous language of song, respect of diversity, poetry, Opera and theater which suffers continuous degradation in Italy by the cultural and mass-media system. A language which the new generations of Neapolitans are losing.
In collaboration with Maestro Lello Traisci, we denounce this situation. In Italy Neapolitan is considered just a dialect and we have to note the interference of institutions that should have to preserve the national language, Italian, about Neapolitan, that we consider as a hazardous situation too. In this video we talk about our work to defend the dignity of neapolitan mother language children and women as the the right to learn their own language correctly. We have realized for example ESF projects based on the a multilingual education, also we have realized the first course of Neapolitan Language according CEFR recognized by the Municipality of Naples and abroad, conferences, publications, and so on, in Neapolitan language too.
Maestro Lello Traisci will also talk to us about the masks of the ancient Neapolitan theatre, through the Atellan fabulae (in oscan language today still present in the actual Neapolitan), also about the most important literary work of fairy tales in the world, the Pentamerone or Lo Cunto de li Cunti by Giambattista Basile, and about the importance of Neapolitan as a language of music and theater all that against the degradations that exist today in Italy about Neapolitan speakers. He gives a demonstration of his art with singing and beating the tammorra, a typical instrument of the Neapolitan popular tradition (of Greek and pre-Greek origin.) This video is dedicated to our Maestros, Carlo Iandolo, Raffaele Bracale and Renato De Falco.
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