How to Use Ladin in a Sentence

Ladin

noun
  • Chef Alma Willet’s menu is all about Ladin cuisine.
    — Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Ladin says these old-fashioned dances are peaking in popularity.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Even Google has had its employees do regular contra dances, Ladin says.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • At the forefront of that work is Daria Valentin, a Ladin linguist born and raised in Val Badia.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The younger crowd is interested in square dancing for its socializing aspect, says Ladin.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Casunziei is linked to Cortina’s Ladin culture that stretches back a millennium.
    — Dallas Morning News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • In the weeks leading up to the Games, locals took matters into their own hands, hanging the Ladin flag across the valleys when the Olympic torch came through town.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • That’s why covering the Olympics in Ladin is so important to Ladin speakers like Cigolla and Iori.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • But some Ladin experts worry the language could be at risk, as the confluence of tourism and globalization threatens to dilute Ladin with Italian.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Cigolla and Iori said Ladin leaders hoped to be more involved in cultural planning, but do not feel organizers did enough to include Italy’s minorities.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • For Ladin locals, playing host to the Games — particularly in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the heart of one of the Ladin valleys — is a source of pride.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • As for the language, kids are growing up increasingly mixing Ladin with Italian, and newcomers settling in these towns largely speak Italian.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Many locals wish the IOC and the Italian organizing committee had done more to showcase Ladin culture through the Games.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • As national flags from competing athletes fly across towns such as Cortina d’Ampezzo, Predazzo and Tesero, the blue, white and green flag of the Ladin people can be easy to miss.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • While the Ladin valleys beyond Cortina d’Ampezzo are not hosting specific events themselves, most, such as Val di Fassa, are within an hour’s drive of one of the venues.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • It’s also shaped by the Ladin, the region’s minority ethnic group, who speak a language separate from Italian, and by the traditions of nearby Austria.
    — Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
  • About half its population is part of Italy’s Ladin minority, which settled the mountain hamlet of Anpezo a millennium ago.
    — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Especially in Cortina d’Ampezzo, advocates wanted to see the Ladin language showcased in events such as the opening ceremony.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The Ladin valleys are accustomed to playing host to visitors in the winter, as vacationers come from around Italy and elsewhere in Europe to ski the iconic Dolomites.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Alexander Stuffer, who reports in Ladin for Rai, Italy’s public TV and radio network, grew up speaking the language in Val Gardena.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The owner of the offending Bin Ladin-esque wall earned the money to build said wall thanks to an apparently successful series of books combining New Age quackery and extraterrestrial quackery.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The Dolomites’ geographic isolation allowed residents to maintain a distinct cultural and linguistic identity; unlike Italian, for example, Ladin has eight words for snow.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • It’s not critically endangered like some minority languages across the world, with locals growing up speaking Ladin alongside Italian, and cultural and linguistic protections ensuring Ladin is taught in schools.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The Evie Ladin Band takes over from there, followed by Virginia’s Five Mile Mountain Road and Laurie Lewis with guitarist Nina Gerber.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In the mid-20th century, life in many of Italy’s mountain towns transformed from one of survival into one of tourism — in part hastened by the 1956 Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo — bringing wealth, but also traffic and pollution, and a threat to Ladin culture.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026

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