June 2006

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THE GOVERNMENT OF SARDINIA WILL INVEST 700,000 € ON SARDINIAN LANGUAGE TRAINING COURSES

June 2006 – The Region of Sardinia has launched a project to start training courses on Sardinian language and culture for school teachers and the region civil servants. To do so, the Sardinian Department of Public Instruction, Cultural Heritage, Information and Sports will be funded with 700,000 € by the Italian Council of Ministers and the Department for Regional Affairs on account of the Act 482/99 on the Protection of Historical Linguistic Minorities.

The courses will be organized and managed by the University of Cagliari and the University of Sassari, which have designed the courses depending on the purposes of the participants. Thus, the courses for teachers will be further divided into two syllabus, one assigned to those who already have experience in teaching the language and another for those who have a knowledge of the language but have never used it in class. The courses for civil servants will focus on administrative language and elaboration and translation of official records, as well as on notions on local, regional and estate law and history of Sardinian institutions.

Elisabetta Pilia, responsible for the Sardinian Department of Public Instruction, Cultural Heritage, Information and Sports has issued the news a few weeks after a common Sardinian language has been adopted by the government as a standard written form.