Language groups Autonomy

In Südtirol most of the population Together with Autonome Province geschrieben von speak German, that's in detail a of Trento, South Tyrol is an Giovanni Dardani particular dialect of that zone. autonome italian province: this Then, another smaller group speak means that the Provincial Council italian and finally a few people can take more decisions than the speak Ladin, an ufficial language other provinces in , and a spoken only in the south-east part higher part of taxes of the of the province. population remains there,instead going to the country. This autonomy was given from Italy because of the recent past of this zone (the last that became part of Italy) and the official trilinguism, which is a peculiarity of South Tyrol.

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