Ladin

Ladin
Ladin
Spoken in	Italy
Region	Province of Belluno, Province of Bolzano-Bozen and Province of Trento
Total speakers	30,000
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance Gallo-Rhaetian Rhaetian Ladin
Official status
Official language in	None
Regulated by	The office for Ladin language planning Ladin Cultural Centre Majon di Fascegn Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	roa
ISO 639-3	lld
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Ladin (Ladino in Italian, Ladin in Ladin, Ladinisch in German) is a Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the Dolomite mountains in northern Italy in the border regions of the provinces Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Veneto. It is closely related to the Swiss Romansh, Surselvan, and Friulian.

Ladin should not be confused with Ladino (also called Judaeo-Spanish), which is a Romance language derived mainly from Spanish, Hebrew, Turkish, and Greek.

It is spoken in:

• the following municipalities of the Province of Bolzano-Bozen:
  • Urtijëi
  • Santa Crestina Gherdëina
  • Sëlva
  • Badia
  • Corvara
  • La Val
  • San Martin de Tor
  • Mareo
• the following municipalities of the Province of Trento (Val di Fassa):
  • Canazei (Ladin Cianacei)
  • Campitello di Fassa (Ladin Ciampedèl)
  • Mazzin (Ladin Mazin)
  • Pozza di Fassa (Ladin Poza)
  • Vigo di Fassa (Ladin Vich)
  • Soraga (Ladin Soraga -or- Sorega)
  • Moena (Ladin Moena)

The Ladin spoken in the Fassa Valley (Ladin Val de Fascia, Italian Val di Fassa) is also subdivided into two further branches: "Cazét" (pronounced [kazɛt]) is spoken in the northern half of the valley, whereas "Brach" (pronounced [brak]) is spoken in the southern half. For example, in Cazét water is "ega" ("e" pronounced /ɛ/), whereas in Brach it is "aga".

• the province of Belluno in:
  • Livinallongo valley (Ladin Fèdom, German Buchenstein) and at
  • Cortina d'Ampezzo (Ladin Anpëz)

It is officially recognized in Italy and has some official rights in the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, while it does not have official status in the province of Belluno (Veneto region).

Flag of the Ladin people

External links

Ladin test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

For a list of words relating to Ladin, see the Ladin language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• The office for Ladin language planning
• News - Noeles.net the first internet-news-portal in ladin language (ladin dolomitan / ladin standard). The main contents are about ladin culture, politics, society, and other.
• Ethnologue report on Ladin
• Weekly Paper - La Usc Di Ladins (The Voice of the Ladins - in Ladin - different sections written in all the different sub-dialects), paper of the General Union of the Ladins of the Dolomites. Weekly news from the Ladin valleys in the Dolomites.
• Ladinienatlas ALD-I
• Linguistic Atlas of Dolomitic Ladinian and neighbouring Dialects - Speaking Linguistic Atlas
• Grzega, Joachim, (German) Ku-eichstaett.de, Materialien zu einem etymologischen Wörterbuch des Dolomitenladinischen (MEWD), Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) 2005.