Ladin

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). <br clear="all">

Translation

The word "Ladin" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Franco-Provençal/Arpitan, French, Indonesian, Occitan, Finnish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Afrikaans: Ladinies, Alemannic: Ladinische Sprache, Aragonese: Idioma ladín, Breton: Ladineg, Catalan: Ladí, Czech: Ladinština, Welsh: Ladineg, German: Ladinische Sprache, Spanish: Idioma ladino, Esperanto: Ladina lingvo, Basque: Ladinera, Friulian: Lenghe ladine, Galician: Lingua ladina, Manx: Ladinish, Italian: Lingua ladina, Latin: Dolomiana Latina lingua, Lithuanian: Ladinų kalba, Lombard: Lengua ladina, Hungarian: Ladin nyelv, Dutch: Ladinisch, Dutch Low Saxon: Ladinies, Japanese: ラディン語, Norwegian (Bokmål): Ladinsk, Meadow Mari: Ладин йылме, Piedmontese: Lenga ladin-a, Polish: Język ladyński, Portuguese: Língua ladino-dolomítica, Romanian: Limba ladină, Romansh: Lingua ladina, Russian: Ладинский язык, Saterland Frisian: Ladinisk, Slovak: Ladinčina, Serbian: Језик ладин, Swedish: Ladinska, Venetian: Łéngoa ładina, Chinese: 拉登語.