Le indicazioni europee, la legge nazionale, le leggi regionali. Osservazioni su testi di tutela delle lingue e delle culture minoritarie

The paper explores several European, national, and regional documents enacted for the protection and promotion of minority and regional languages and cultures. Some limitations of these documents are highlighted, especially cocerning the Italian law, where some nouns use to name language varieties and language communities, the way the law talk about language and culture links, the lack of real knowledge about the very different contexts of minority languages in Italy and the poor awareness expressed about some aspect of anguage planning. A special attention is devoted to the language acquisition planning, that is the planning of linguistic transmission.