Ordinance
on the National Languages and Understanding between the Linguistic Communities
(Languages Ordinance, LangO)

(Art. 22 para. 1 let. a and c LangA)

In or­der to pre­serve and pro­mote the Itali­an lan­guage and cul­ture, the Can­ton of Ti­cino shall be gran­ted fin­an­cial as­sist­ance to sup­port the can­ton’s own meas­ures in the fol­low­ing areas:

a.

re­search pro­grammes and re­search pro­jects re­lat­ing to lan­guage and cul­ture;

b.

pub­lic­a­tions of par­tic­u­lar sig­ni­fic­ance in pro­mot­ing the Itali­an lan­guage and cul­ture;

c.

events and pro­jects that pro­mote the Itali­an lan­guage and cul­ture;

d.

third-party pro­jects that in­volve pluri­lin­gual­ism and pre­serving and pro­mot­ing lin­guist­ic and cul­tur­al iden­tity.