Geo-cartographic aspects of the toponymy of Sardinia between conservation and enhancement.

The analysis of the toponymy of Sardinia, an island characterized by a minority language, although with different dialectal varieties, involves the realization of a specific Toponymic Atlas with which to verify the cultural overlaps/substitutions that have marked its territory and its history. The Atlas is useful to collect the old toponyms and to understand their disappearance and/or evolution and to catalogue, classify and disseminate the heritage systematically collected in the numerous cartographies, in particular the topographic ones. The aim of this paper is to observe how Sardinian toponymy still awaits the valorization and preservation policies to bring this language, with all its specificity, to be effectively considered a “living reality” and fully rooted in the island, able to overcome the attacks of globalization. This can be possible by a structured process of collecting, analyzing and systematizing toponyms, as only a modern Toponymic Atlas can do.