Talk:Urtijëi/Archive

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Technically its German... its about 10% Ladin speaking so German is predominant. I'm gonna clarify that. btw I know that because I went there recently, and its a small town. However, if anyone feels that I am really wrong, feel free to change it. I'm just trying to help out with my experience there. I'll be working there all summer, so I'll be able to expand this significantly after that. Cprussin 23:11, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

One more comment: I think when they say their natively Ladin speaking it means they learned Ladin as a first language, not the first language. Many people in that area learn 2,3, even 4 first languages which they use on a daily basis. Ex: I knew someone who used German in the home, Italian in the village and with friends, and English at work. Cprussin 23:20, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't have a non-Wikipedia source for the poll, but the numbers given in it:Ortisei add up to 100%, so they did say "the" first language. Of course practically everybody there is usually also a native speaker of German (I have been there and talked to everybody in German) or Italian, they just choose to classify themselves as speakers of Ladin. Kusma (討論) 23:25, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually I agree completely. When I went I only heard Italian and German--all of the Ladin must be like in-home or something. I'll email a person I know from the area. She may be able to help me. Cprussin 02:54, 29 March 2006 (UTC) By the way, I salute you for reading that in Italian... even though you are a language teacher, thats pretty intense.

I believe that Ladin is much more similar to Italian than German, being that it is a Romance language after all. There are many dialects in Trentino that are very similar to Ladin. German is an entirely different language than Italian/Ladin. Taalo 19:10, 16 October 2006 (UTC)