Project “AMICO” – An Alliance for Mobility Incoming and Outgoing

Project "AMICO" - An Alliance for Mobility Incoming and Outgoing Development and implementation of counselling and guidance training in the European context The AMICO project, which started in September 2015 and involved 4 European countries (Italy, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) and 10 organisations [...]

Web applications for the Cimbrian language

Web applications for the Cimbrian language At the Autonomy Day of the Province of Trento, held on September 5, 2015, Smallcodes presented the work done in recent years for the minorities of Trento in Cimbrian, Mòchena and Ladin. In this video of the Cimbrian TG the three basic [...]

Encoding language – by Cristiana Moisescu

Encoding language - by Cristiana Moisescu Have you ever heard of Bernstoler Sproch? Or Tischlbong? If they sound like made-up words, think again. They are just two of almost 20 endangered languages that are now getting a makeover thanks to Smallcodes. A project led by Carlo Zoli, an [...]

Interview with prof. Marcel Courthiade on the portal rromani

Interview with prof. Marcel Courthiade on the portal rromani Presentation and interview with Prof. Marcel Courthiade (Inalco - Paris), winner of the Special Prize at the fifth edition of the Ostana Prize - Writings in Mother Language. Prof. Courthiade talks about his work of transformation into digital and [...]

Italian to Spanish in 5 rules

Italian to Spanish in 5 rules Carlo Zoli explains to a class of Huave students (Mexico) how to understand each other with the use of five simple rules and with a minimum of vocabulary. The standardization of the language, necessary for its digitalization and consequent recovery, passes from [...]

Dubbing cartoons into minority languages

Dubbing cartoons into minority languages Carlo Zoli speaks on the subject of dubbing cartoons for minority languages, a project carried out by Smallcodes s.r.l., highlighting the great advantages that the operation brings with it for the preservation, dissemination and change of perception of the status of minority languages [...]

The state of health of the Romagna language

The state of health of the Romagna language Interview with Carlo Zoli at the Teatro dei Filodrammatici in Faenza. We talk about the language of Romagna and the tools necessary for its survival.

Lexicon in the future – Bruno Fracasso interviews Carlo Zoli

Lexicon in the future - Bruno Fracasso interviews Carlo Zoli The recognised minority languages are fragmented into a thousand dialects, how is it possible to apply modern technologies to these little babels? Unfortunately, the Italian school, even when it works well, does not give its students a linguistic [...]

Other voices of Italy – Michele Gravino

Other voices of Italy - Michele Gravino Italy is generally considered by academics to be one of the countries with the greatest linguistic diversity in Europe. The law recognizes a dozen minority languages, historically rooted in areas now inhabited by a total of about four million people. Their [...]

The man who translates the Apps into Friesian and Sardinian

The man who translates the Apps into Friesian and Sardinian Originally it was Ladin, then Friulian, Friesian, Sardinian and soon it will be the turn of Romanì, the language of the Rom. And it is likely that in the coming months from this study in Via del Campuccio, [...]