A Glasgow teacher who runs the world’s only academic course for the Neapolitan language is calling on institutions in Italy to do the same to help safeguard its future.
Now a Scottish teacher who runs the world’s only academic course for the Neapolitan language is calling on institutions in Italy to do the same to help safeguard its future.
A Romance language, Neapolitan is spoken by around seven million people in Naples and across much of southern Italy.However, it has no legal status in Italy, and as such is not permitted to be taught in state-run schools, while attempts to teach it at the University of Naples Federico II have also failed.
It’s a problem that he feels stems from decades of stigmatisation towards the language by the more affluent classes in Naples.War Two when there was an official, yet unspoken, ban on the language, which led to the formation of a brand-new breed of Neapolitan person, one that would speak only Italian and be absolutely wary of speaking a single word of Neapolitan.“It created a lot of bias and stigmatisation against Neapolitan speakers who tended to be more and more from the more deprived areas.
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