Padanie

Geographical reality

The Padanie , in Italian Padania , is the generic name given to a whole of areas of the north of the Italy, around the valley of the Po, and including the Piedmont, the Lombardy, the Emilie-Romagna and the Venezia. The name of Padanie derives from the term Val Padana , which means valley of Po. Dated roughly from the 19th century, the word Padano was especially used like an adjective, which means " originating in Pô".

Use as political concept

Relatively not very used in the language running until the 20th century, the name of Padanie was recovered by the party Italian Régionaliste of the Ligue of North.

Umberto Bossi, the leader of the party, exalte the " Padanie" like symbol of the lifeblood of Italy of North, in opposition to the south considered as arrear. The Padanie term is employed by the League of North to indicate the whole of the north of Italy, by including there sometimes certain central areas like the Toscane. The party initially claimed a secession of Padanie of the remainder of Italy.

The security service of the League is named the guard padane , which places it among the symbols continuators of a Praetorian Garde, which would be the core for the future army of the country in the event of separation of Padanie of the remainder of Italy.

Padania , a Daily Italian, official body of the League of the North, distributed in the area of Po.

The League of North gradually gave up the concept of separatism to concentrate on reforms of decentralization initiated by Umberto Bossi as a Minister for the government of Silvio Berlusconi.

Languages

The dominant language of Padanie is standard Italian today. The most spread speeches, but all in the process of disappearance are the Parlers gallo-italics which belong to the unit north-Italian or padan , but they are not recognized officially. Other languages - French, Francoprovençal, Occitan, German, Frioulan, Slovenien Ladin and - are spoken in frontier territories and are recognized officially by the State like minority languages.

Various the vernacular languages or local languages, that some regard as only one language, the north-Italian, génériquement is génériquement indicated by the word " dialetto" (Dialect) by their speaking, are not any more common use, except in closed contexts (families, people that one knows and which speak the same vernacular language). However, the situation varies according to the area and the age of the people. Venezia is the area where the continuous local language with being employed with more assiduity. The elderly tend to speaking the local language more than the young people and also using a less Italianized version. These " dialectes" are regarded as regional minority languages by the European Charte of the regional or minority languages of the the Council of Europe, by the " Red Book one Endangered Languages " UNESCO. The various local languages (lombard, Ligure, émilien-romagnol, Piedmontese and Venetian) are in broad measurement reciprocally comprehensible between them, and, in minor measurement, with the Italian language.

A linguist of world famous, Professor Geoffrey Hull de Macarthur University off West Sydney, showed the original unit of the group of languages padanaises in his thesis entitled: " The Linguistic Unity off Northern Italy and Rhaetia" (1982).

Professor Hull divides the group padanais in two sub-groups:

" lowland" (of the low grounds) or north-Italian or padan.
" highland" (of the high grounds) or Rhéto-roman groups: Frioulan, Ladin and Romanche. The two first are recognized officially in Italy, while the romanche, in the form of " Rumantsch Grischun" , a language of compromise, is the fourth official language of Switzerland. This sub-group of languages is better known like Rhéto-roman.

See too

Separatism

History of Italy

former political experiments on the area:

North-Italian or padan (dialectal variety of the Italian)

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