The lingualatte of the mother and of the earth-matria

Abstract

Lingualatte is the language that is learned spontaneously, drinking it from the lips of the mother just as one drinks milk from her breast. It is a language made of voice rather than words, because, before communicating meanings, it means love. Grandmothers, wet nurses, teachers, have preserved it for centuries in funeral songs, lullabies and fairy tales. The romantic peoples have recognized it, transforming the “mother tongue” into the “national language”, of a nation without borders that is not the Homeland of Patriarchs and Heritages but the Homeland of roots, of memory, of places of childhood and protection. But above all it is the wind, the water of the spring, the rustling of the leaves, the moan of the animal, that have spoken it as a universal language that, beyond borders and walls, unites the living in the arms of Mother Nature, thus re-establishing the ecological concept of Earth-Homeland towards the utopia of a Mother-Earth.