marcin
(Marcin)
#1
he writes about the language “stolen” from a
people:
And in the whole world around me,
dialect seemed destined to become
extinguished in epochs so distant as to
appear abstract. It seemed that the
italianization of Italy had to be founded on a
wide contribution from below, dialectal and
popular in nature (and not on the
substitution of the pilot literary language
with the managerial pilot language, as later
happened). Among the other tragedies we
have experienced (...) in the last few years,
there has also been the tragedy of the loss of
dialect (...)^3
And while the phenomenon of
(functional) illiteracy continues to decrease
in the island, with extremes of 24.56% in the
1951 census and 16.46% in 1961 (which leave
the region in fourteenth place among the