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document | Neapolitan, a language and heritage at risk

Neapolitan language and its speakers as a case of linguistic and cultural
discrimination.
The work of the Accademia Napoletana to promote and teach Neapolitan.
The role of the mass-media and the cultural system in Italy to reinforce ancient prejudices, and stereotypes against the Neapolitan community and southern Italian, according to an anti-Southern ideology still today very powerful in Italy, a situation that receives very little attention and which especially affects the rights of minors and Neapolitan women.

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