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  Ladin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ladin (Ladino in Italian, Ladin in Ladin, Ladinisch in German) is a Rhaetian language spoken in the Dolomite mountains in Italy, between the regions of Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto.
The Ladin spoken in the Fassa Valley (Ladin Val de Fascia, Italian Val di Fassa) is also subdivided into two further branches, "Cazét" (pronounced "cazet") is spoken in the northern half of the valley, whereas "Brach" (pronounced "brak"), is spoken in the southern half.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ladin_language   (285 words)

  
 Ladin language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although Ladin in Italian is referred to as "Ladino", this language should not be confused with another (The group of languages derived from Latin) Romance language, (A person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)) Ladino (Judæo-Spanish)
It presents connections with the Swiss (The Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in southeastern Switzerland; it is an official language of Switzerland) Romansh and (A Rhaeto-Romance dialect spoken in northeastern Italy) Friulian.
The Ladin spoken in the Fassa Valley (Ladin Val de Fascia, Italian Val di Fassa) is also subdivided into two further branches, "Cazét" (pronounced "catzet") is spoken in the northern half of the valley, whereas "Brach" (pronounced "brak"), is spoken in the southern half.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/ladin_language.htm   (356 words)

  
 Official language article - Official language language constitutions states minority languages Ladin Sardinian - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An official language is a language that is specifically designated to be so in the constitutions of countries, states, and other territories.
However, a language officially recognized by a state, taught in schools and used in official communication is not necessarily an official language.
As a consequence of colonialism or neocolonialism, the official and learning languages of the Philippines and some countries in Africa, such as French or English, are not the national languages or the most widely spoken.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Official_language   (365 words)

  
 Meractor Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ladin speakers here number 18,434 or 4.3% of the population It is also spoken by some 7,000-7,500 people in Trentino and by 6,000-7,000 in the province of Belluno.
In the Ladin schools in South Tyrol, instruction is divided equally between Italian and German, with the exception of the first two primary school classes, which are taught either through Ladin and German or through Ladin and Italian.
he provision of media in the Ladin language is poor; given the lack of a recognised standard language and the absence of an intellectual, cultural and political centre within the Ladin valleys.
www.aber.ac.uk /~merwww/english/lang/ladin.htm   (549 words)

  
 Dolomiti Superski - People/language
Ladin is a Romance language which developed through the centuries from the annexation of the world of the "Reti" to the Roman Empire.
The Ladin territory was once strongly believed to be widespread: from the sources of the Rhine River to the city of Trieste, from the Danube to the Garda Lake.
The Ladin idiom we find in the Fassa Valley is the most southern one of the Dolomite mountains and for this reason it is exposed to the influence of the adjacent regions (Trentino and Veneto).
www.dolomitisuperski.com /valfassa/content.asp?L=3&MES=3205   (592 words)

  
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As far as regards foreign language teaching the term is used both to refer to a) the situation of foreign language teaching in primary schools (the teaching of one foreign language in the primary school was made compulsory in 1985 and was officially applied in 1992 after several years of experimentation).
Initial training The situation of the foreign language teacher in the primary school is different in certain respects from that of the foreign language teacher in the lower and upper secondary schools from the point of view of the training procedures and requirements.
As this second vehicular language is generally the language least known or not known at all by the pupils the language is taught through one hour of conversation in the first class.
userpage.fu-berlin.de /~elc/tnp1/SP6NatRepIT.doc   (12844 words)

  
 Ladin in Italy
Regional or minority languages are languages which differ from the official language of that State and which are traditionally used within a given territory of that State by nationals of that State forming a group numerically smaller than the rest of the State's population.
In 1994 a Ladin branch of the provincial educational authority was created and in 1995 the Provincial Act introducing Ladin in grades 1-8 (shortly to be extended to grade 10) was accepted by the Italian State, together with the new Ladin curriculum.
The Ladin Department is responsible for the Ladin students' curriculum and supervises the Ladin language culture courses and multilingual education.
www1.fa.knaw.nl /mercator/regionale_dossiers/regional_dossier_ladin_in_italy.htm   (5563 words)

  
 Euromosaic - Ladin in Italy
In the Avisio valley, it is an optional language, and in the Province of Belluno it is not used in pre-school education.
Ladin is therefore no longer a medium of instruction and is taught for two hours in years 1 to 3 of lower secondary education.
In the Ladin periodicals all the advertising is in Ladin.
www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/ladi/an/i1/i1.html   (3814 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ladin language
The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages or New Latin languages, are a subset of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Latin dialects spoken by the common people in what is known as Latin Europe (Italian/Portuguese/Spanish/Catalan Europa latina, French Europe latine, Romanian Europa latină) as...
SIL International is a non-profit, Christian, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development.
Friulian (friulano in Italian, Furlan in Friulian) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaetian languages family, spoken in the north-east of Italy (Friuli-Venezia Giulia province) by about 600,000 people, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ladin-language   (820 words)

  
 U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Italy: Background
Ladin is a neo-Latin or Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the Central and Eastern Alpine regions.
Central or Dolomite Ladin is spoken in five valleys in the Dolomites (Val Badia, Gherdëina, Fascia, Fodom and Cortina de Anpezo), which belong to different provinces and regions and have, for that reason, different language policies.
Friulian is spoken in the Provinces of Gorizia, Pordenone and Udine in the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and in the Province of Venice (District of Portogruaro).
www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=50&TID=2   (901 words)

  
 World congress on language policies
The last group consists of language communities whose position and provisions also depend on the central government, but the real protection of the regional and minority language is dependent on the local policies of municipalities and their political and administrative leaderships, such as boards of education.
Instead of referring to particular languages, Spain has ratified for regional or minority languages that are co-official languages in the autonomous communities and the languages that are protected by the statuses of autonomy in the territories where they are traditionally spoken.
Ladin is given as an optional subject in the curriculum in Trent and outside the curriculum in Belum.
www.linguapax.org /congres/taller/taller4/Alie.html   (6743 words)

  
 Official language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is typically the language used in a nation's legislaturelegislative/ bodies, though the law in many nations requires that government documents be produced in other languages as well.
The official languages of some former colonies, typically French languageFrench or English languageEnglish/, are not the national languages or the most widely spoken language.
List of countries where language is a political issueIn some countries/, the issue of which language is to be used in what context is a major political issue.
www.infothis.com /find/Official_language   (543 words)

  
 Euromosaic - Ladin language use survey
Many members of minority language groups are daunted by the confrontation with a single state language let alone two and in this respect it presents an interesting case study of minority language retention.
The majority used language with all members of the household and Ladin was the language of communication between the parents in 84% of the cases.
The general orientation towards Ladin is positive few feeling that it is under threat while feeling that it is an essential ingredient of being Ladin, and that children should be socialised by reference to the language.
www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/ladi/an/e1/e1.html   (2270 words)

  
 List of endangered languages - Simple English Wikipedia
In order to judge if a language is actually endangered, the number of speakers is less important than the distribution among age cohorts.
There may be 500 000 mothertongue speakers of the Breton language over 50 years of age, but fewer than 2 000 under 25 years of age - thus it is likely Breton will die out in the next half century.
On the other hand while there are 30 000 Ladin language speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mothertongue - thus Ladin is not endangered in the 21st century.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_endangered_languages   (227 words)

  
 U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Italy: Legislation
According to language experts gathered at the “IV International Symposium on European Languages and Legislation”, the contradiction between the administrative bodies in charge of the implementation of the law is due to a lack of confidence in the normalization process.
In May of 1989 the parity of the German Language with the Italian in public administration, the courts and the police, etc. was promulgated by Presidential Decree n.
The Ladin valleys of Fodom and Cortina de Anpezo are near Belum in the region of Venice, which became a part of the Italian Kingdom in 1866.
www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=50&TID=1   (6863 words)

  
 Italy - Ladins
According to , the flag was created in 1920 during a meeting of Ladins.
According to Gilberto Oneto article published on "ETHNICA popoli e culture" November 1993, the Ladine flag is rapresented with the Grigioni Goat in the white stripe.
It is stated that, although most Ladins live in Italy, a few of them live in the Rhetian Alps, therefore in Switzerland.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/it_ladin.html   (904 words)

  
 Ladin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ladin is spoken by 35,000 in the dolomite area of Italy.
It is an Indo-European language which is very similar to Friulian and Romansch..
Most people know Standard Italian, but have pride in their language.
www.flw.com /languages/ladin.htm   (35 words)

  
 Welcome to Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü
Besides this, it is important to know and be in contact with other ethnic-linguistic minorities, if you think about the aims in common which concern the preservation of the unique linguistic-cultural richness, thanks to which every minority is able to define itself as such.
Therefore the participation of representatives of the Ladin language group in conferences is relatively large and they also visit quite often institutions which work for the preservation and the promotion of other minority languages.
There are also numerous visits from representatives of other ethnic-linguistic minorities to the Ladin Cultural Institute “Micurà de Rü”, during which the director or also other collaborators of the Institute present the activities of the Institute and explain the present situation of the Ladins of the Dolomites.
www.micura.it /eng/647.html   (248 words)

  
 Val Gardena - Trentino South Tyrol - Welcome to Italy
The Latin of the conquerors was mixed with the language of the native Rhaetians.
When the Germanic tribes of the Bavarians and Alemanni moved south in the 6th century, the area of the Rhaetian language was split up, leaving enclaves in which the language has survived against all obstacles right down to the present day, e.g.
The fact that the Rhaetian language was once much more widespread can be seen from the ancient field and place names found in Val d’Isarco or the upper Val Venosta.
www.emmeti.it /Welcome/Trentino/AltoAdige/ValGardena/valgardena7.uk.html   (201 words)

  
 Articles - Romansh language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The standardized language, called Rumantsch Grischun, has not been very well accepted, and speakers of the different dialects tend to address one another in German.
This is leading to an acceleration of the decline of the language.
However, and are pronounced /ke/ and /ki/, being a grapheme deemed unfit for a Romance language such as Romansh; therefore, words with /tɕ/ plus /e/ or /i/ have (for example tgirar) instead of .
www.gaple.com /articles/Romansh   (461 words)

  
 Ethnic and national minorities and electronic media. The RAI - radio televisione italiana - not only italian. An ...
Article 19 of the reform law charged the RAI licensees with the task of providing German and Ladin language programmes in South Tyrol/Province of Bolzano-Bozen, French language programmes in Aosta and Slovenian language programmes in the Region of Friuli-Venezia-Giulia.
The Slovenian and Italian language groups agreed on the project already in 1996, the Slovenian parliament has approved the bilingual TV project, as have the foreign ministeries of both countries.
At a meeting in Bolzano/Bozen of the RAI journalists’ trade union and of the Confemili (Italian Commitee of the European Bureau for lesser used languages) the RAI was again called on to provide the linguistic minorities with mother-tongue programmes.
www.gfbv.it /3dossier/rai-en.html   (1689 words)

  
 People and language - Alta Badia Dolomites - Corvara, Colfosco, San Cassiano, La Villa, Pedraces, La Valle
Due to the annex of the region by the Roman Empire, the population took up the “vulgar” Latin of the Roman conquerors, forming a Romance language that developed in parallel to Italian, French and Spanish; thus Ladin was born.
An important role in the safeguard and promotion of the Ladin language is thhose of the "Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü".
The Ladin population are characterised not only by their language but also especially by their ancient and proud culture based around agriculture and their artisans.
www.altabadia.org /summer/content.asp?L=3&M=5730   (250 words)

  
 Dolomiti Superski - People/language
The Ladin dialect can be defined as a true language of Neo-Latin origin.
There are three main types of Ladin, the one spoken in this area is part of "Dolomitic Ladin".
The municipality of Rocca Pietore is the only one in the Dolomites to speak two distinct types of Ladin, for this reason the area is of particular interest to linguists.
www.dolomitisuperski.com /marmolada/content.asp?L=3&MES=5569   (105 words)

  
 Linguist List - Web Resource Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
GeoNative: Minority Languages on the Map: Toponymy and placenames of minority and native languages.
How different languages express animal sounds: Samples of expression of animal sounds: by type of animal and by language.
Language Museum: Language Museum is a linguistic website which provides samples of 1200 languages in the world.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/sp/LangNovelties.html   (482 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ladin (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Ladin (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
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reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/X/X-Ladin.html   (113 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Ladin language Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although Ladin in Italian is referred as Ladino, this language should not be confused with Ladino, another name for Judaeo-Spanish Ladin is a Rhaetian language spoken in the Dolomite mountains in Ital...
Although Ladin in Italian is referred as Ladino, this language should not be confused with Ladino, another name for Judaeo-Spanish
the province of Bolzano at Ortisei (Urtijëi in Ladin or St.Ulrich in German),
www.ipedia.com /ladin_language.html   (188 words)

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