I was installing a copy of the latest version of Ubuntu, and I noticed that among the Italian keyboard layouts, in addition to the classic ones, there are also Sicilian and Friulian. Could you please remove them? Both Sicilian and Friulian are dialects, not languages, and in Italy, the official language is Italian, even in Friuli and Sicily. Dialects are used only in spoken form. Thank you.
Just to check but when you say “latest version” do you mean of Lubuntu, and do you mean 24.10 which was recently released?
yea ofcourse the 24.10
Hi 
Your assessment is incorrect, I’m afraid. The distinction between a dialect and a language can at times be a little unclear, but in this case, there isn’t much of an argument in favour of them not being separate languages. Both have their own written literatures, language communities, music, native speakers and histories separate from that of Standard Italian.
Furthermore, feel free to look at other layouts in the list beyond the Italian layout, and you will see that many of these layouts have alternatives for the local regional/indigenous languages.
@teward I would strongly advise against removing the mention of regional languages of Italy, as it takes a negligible amount of memory, and as doing so would uselessly invisibilise communities who work hard to care for their languages, and would set a dangerous precedent.
I hope you understand. I am aware that it is common practice to call these languages “dialetti” in Italian, but that is incorrect and harmful.
Regards,
A concerned linguist
Edit: I made a mistake, which I removed from my comment
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You can get scn and fur keyboard layouts for mobile phones too, so it can’t be an error.
Both are recognised as minority languages (unesco).
And have been in X11 since 2017
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/it
// 03 December 2017 - Added it(intl) and it(scn), please refer to
// Cadèmia Siciliana <l10n@cademiasiciliana.org>
// 28 February 2017 - Added it(fur), please refer to
// Fabio Tomat <f.t.public@gmail.com>
(the friulian date is a typo and should say 2019) (ref).
So both have been in *ubuntu at least since 19.04.
If you have a problem with their existence, you
have to take it up with either freedesktop.org or Xorg.
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