Ladin Definition

lə-dēn
noun
The dialect of Rhaeto-Romance spoken in NE Italy and SE Switzerland.
Webster's New World
Romansh as spoken in Engadine between Saint Moritz and the Austrian border.
American Heritage
A native speaker of this dialect.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A sub-dialect of the Indo-European Romance superfamily, spoken primarily in the southeastern region of Switzerland, the upper portion of Tyrol, and in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy.

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Origin of Ladin

  • Rhaeto-Romance from Latin Latīnus Latin Latin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ladin Sentence Examples

  • Of the three Latin races, Italian, Ladin and Rumanian, national fragments were to be found in Austria.

  • In Switzerland there are Italian-speaking regions, as well as some spots (in the Grisons) where the old Romance dialect of Romansch or Ladin survives; while in Austria, besides German, Italian and Ladin, we havea Slavonic-speaking population in the South-Eastern Alps.

  • In 1900 its population was 852,712 (all but wholly Romanist), of whom more than half were German-speaking, and many in the south Italian-speaking, while in certain side valleys of the Adige system the quaint old Ladin dialect, still surviving also in the Swiss Engadine, is the prevailing tongue; in the southern half of the region there are a few German-speaking among the Italian-speaking folk.

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Words Starting With

LLALAD

Words Ending With

NINDIN

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Words Starting With L and Ending With N

Starts With L & Ends With NStarts With LA & Ends With NStarts With L & Ends With IN

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