Ladin

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A language of Italy

ISO 639-3
lld
Alternate Names
Dolomite, Rhaeto-Romance
User Population

Ethnic population: 38,000.

Location

Trentino-Alto Adige region: the autonomous province of Bolzano-South Tyrol, 2 valleys.

Language Status

6b (Threatened).

Classification
Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Rhaetian
Dialects

Atesino, Cadorino, Nones (Nones Blot, Nonese, Nonesh, Parlata Trentina), Gardenese (Grödnerisch, Grüdno), Fassano, Badiotto (Gadertalisch), Marebbano (Ennebergisch), Livinallese, Ampezzano.

Language Use

Some young people, all adults. Some children learn it but stop using it at school age (Salminen 2007). Positive attitudes. Also use Italian [ita]. Also use Standard German [deu].

Language Development

Taught as subject in primary schools. NT: 2005.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Ladin
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

Written since 1800 in Italy. Dialects of Gardenese, Badiotto, and Fassano taught in school. Distinct from Ladino [lad], Judeo-Spanish.