This conference focuses on heritage languages spoken within Italy’s diasporic communities, including Arabic, Chinese, Romanian, Tagalog, and Ukrainian, among many others. While research on heritage languages in Italy has grown in recent years, many aspects remain underexplored.

Bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds, the conference aims to foster discussion on different heritage language communities and approaches. Adopting a language contact perspective, we explore sociolinguistic and linguistic aspects from the viewpoint of speakers. Topics of interest include language attitudes and ideologies, family language policy, language maintenance, translanguaging, language contact, code-switching, and psycholinguistic dimensions of heritage bilingualism.

This conference serves as the final event of the PRIN PNRR 2022 project HELLO Campania, which investigates heritage languages in the Campania region. With this conference we aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of heritage languages in Italy.

The conference will be hosted by University L'Orientale on the 2nd of October 2025 and by University Federico II on the 3rd of October 2025.

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