Ladin

South Tyrol: in the 2024 language census (declarations of language-group affiliation), 4.41% of declarations were for the Ladin group, against 68.61% for the German and 26.98% for the Italian group².

According to the Mercator research centre, Ladin has about 30,000 speakers, 79% of the roughly 38,000 inhabitants of the Ladin valleys (Val Badia, Gherdëina/Val Gardena, Val di Fassa, Fodom, Cortina d'Ampezzo)¹.

Italy has signed but not ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; Law 482 of 15 December 1999 on historic linguistic minorities guarantees language teaching and use in local administration¹.

In South Tyrol, the autonomy statute guarantees that at least one member of the Ladin group sits in the Landtag (provincial assembly), and the Ladin group may be represented in the provincial government beyond its numerical weight².

In South Tyrol, the right to use Ladin with the administration applies in the two Ladin valleys (Val Badia and Val Gardena) and, beyond them, with provincial offices dealing mainly with Ladin affairs². Public employees must master Italian and German, and also Ladin in the Ladin valleys².

Ladin schools must provide two weekly Ladin lessons¹. In Trentino, a 1990 law allows Ladin alongside Italian in nursery school in the Fassa valley, and a 1995 provincial law introduced Ladin as a subject in schools of Ladin municipalities¹. Teaching materials and teacher training are provided notably by the Ofize Ladin Fascia Pedagogich (Trento) and Ladin teachers' associations¹.

The Micurà de Rü cultural institute (Val Badia) publishes books and children's literature in Ladin; an Italian–Ladin dictionary and a spell checker are available online¹.