Regional and
international rules
Regional recognition
of Venetian language
Veneto Region since
1999 has undertaken a road leading to the recognition of Venetian language and identity with the approval, by the Region Council, of a
resolution (n.262) requiring to the Italian State the recognition of Venetian as a language.
A concrete step is represented by
regional law of 14th january 2003, n.3 (published on BUR n. 5/2003) that at art. 22 (
initiatives of promotion and enhancement of Venetian identity) provides for:
“
The regional Council promotes and favours initiatives of research, spread and enhancement of the cultural and linguistic heritage on which Venetian identity is based by means of the organization of conferences,workshops,exhibitions, researches,publications and events aimed at introducing the cultural and linguistic complexity in which the expression and marks of Venetian identity can be recognized.”
Another significative moment is represented by
regional law of 13th april 2007 n.8 (BUT n.37/2007) which deals with the
PRESERVATION, ENHANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE VENETIAN LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL HERITAGE.
In its drafting it is underlined how ,the importance of the measure is given by the presence of a
resolution of the European Council of 16th march 1988, stating how “
the right of populations to express themselves in their regional or minority languages within their private and social life represents an unprescriptable right”.
rom that , the Region intervention, by the work of the regional Council, which underlines how “the States most progressive and
respectful of minorities ‘rights of have understood that when
a nation is
conscious of its own identity, it is more willing to understand other people's cultures”.
The regional law presents some basic aspects of Venetian language
Article 2indeed defines what we should intend for Venetian language, indicating “
the spoken specifications historically used in the Venetian territory and in the places where they have been preserved by communities that have significantly kept the same matrix”.
At
article 5 is then instituted a Celebration of the Venetian People: “
in order to favour the knowledge of Venetian history, to enhance its original linguistic heritage, to illustrate the values of its culture, tradition,civism, in their radication and perspective, as well as to make adequately known the Statute and symbols of the Region “that is celebrated on 25th march, day of the foundation of Venice”.
The remaining articles regulate the actions that the regional Council can realize “
in order to favour the knowledge and spread of Venetian linguistic heritage”.
NOTE: even if it has been recognized by Veneto Region,
Venetian hasn’t still be recognized as language by the Italian State by now.
The languages recognized by Italy -obviously besides Italian- are:
friulian, ladin, german, slovenian,occitan,french, french-provencal, albanian, grecian, sardinian, catalan and croatian.
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Proposal of a regional Museum on the History of Venetian Civilization
By the Project of Regional Law n. 347 some Regional Councillors have proposed the creation of the "MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF VENETIAN CIVILIZATION".
The text was submitted to the Council Presidency on 04/08/2008 and was approved by the sixth Commission on 11th december 2008. In the following months the iter will be to discuss and vote in the Regional Council.
In the document introduction we can read:
[...] We live in years in which the too poor information and education about the history of Venetians and their laws and institutions, together with the more and more wide and deep territorial, behavioural and demographic transformations, are synergically tearing and impoverishing the civil and social Venetian fabric. It therefore results more and more evident, and not anymore postponable, the need to realize a dynamic container able to summarize with involving forcefulness, the extraordinary moral and material, juridical-institutional, economical and entrepreneurial, artistic, ecological and social Venetian experiences. [...]
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