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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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Not to be confused with Ladino language.

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 dialect of Spanish, with Hebrew, Turkish, and Greek influences.

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

Sample of Ladin language from Val Gardena

Adele Moroder-Lenert talks about her grandparents from the Archiv Radio Ladin - Alex Moroder

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[edit] External links

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.