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This project is born with the
aim to spread out the knowledge of the European minor languages
and cultures. We think that a speech has got the worth of a
language when it is spoken by a folk that has being living on the
same land for centuries. A language partially inherited from our
ancestrors and partially evolved, as all languages in the world,
with the help of other languages that have had an influence upon
it along the centuries. Lugodorese Sardinian is a Romance
language despite many words of its lexical background being here
before the Romans' arrival in the island.
This language has kept
unevolved in so many aspects that it's the one which most
resembles Latin. That was possible because of the special History
of Sardinia; it's isolation from the rest of the Meditarrenean
people was complete for several centuries.
We consider that every folk
possessing a language should maintain it, for language is the
most consistent item of one's culture or one's identity. Today
the modern media are favourising the disappearence of every
cultural aspect of the minorities, though there is no specific
plan from the states to achieve it. State languages always push
these minor languages into margination for obvious reasons. They
don't have any space at school, so their natural ambience becomes
more and more reduced.
People speak their language
less and less frequently, but seek the strong one, the language
of prestige that will provide them means to improve within our
society. It's commonly believed that the knowledge of the
original languages of our folks (including their writing and
their reading) is almost a waste of time.
By the means of the net, which
is undoubtfully a universal means where the dominant language
-English- is used, may be worthy for a contrary purpose: to
spread and make people from all over the world know the richness
of these languages and impide their disappearence, and -if it's
God's will- so that we speak again the language of our parents.
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