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M\u00f2cheno<\/span><\/span><\/h2>

M\u00f2cheno is a Germanic variety spoken in Trentino, in the Fersina Valley, ca. 20 km east of the city of Trento. Speakers, in addition to the term <\/span>M\u00f2cheno<\/span><\/i> also use <\/span>de inger sproch<\/span><\/i> (‘our language’) to refer to their own variety. The first German settlers established themselves in the Fersina Valley around the 13th century and were originally from Tyrol and from areas next to the Fersina Valley that were already colonized by German-speaking communities. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today M\u00f2cheno is a Germanic language island comprising the three municipalities of Pal\u00f9 del Fersina (Palai en Bersntol), Fierozzo (Vlarotz) and Frassilongo\/Roveda (Garait\/Oachlait). The speakers of M\u00f2cheno are usually at least trilingual: in addition to M\u00f2cheno and standard Italian (the language of schooling) they also speak the local Trentino dialect<\/a>. Until recently, M\u00f2cheno was only used orally. In 2003, the M\u00f2cheno Cultural Institute (BKI) published a normative grammar of the language that also contains an orthography proposal (Rowley 2003, based on Rowley 1986, 2010).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

\u00a0In recent years, the BKI has also coordinated various activities to protect this endangered minority language, such as publishing a dictionary (s’kloa be.be, also available in an online version at http:\/\/kib.ladintal.it\/<\/a>) and the standardization of the orthography used for place names which, in accordance with provincial law, must be rendered in M\u00f2cheno. In the dialectological classification M\u00f2cheno belongs to the group of the Southern Bavarian dialects (see articles in Bideses and Cognola 2013 as well as Rabanus 2017). Along with Ladin<\/a> and Cimbrian<\/a>, it is part of the minority languages protected by the legislation of the Autonomous Province of Trento as well as by State law 482\/1999.<\/span><\/p>\n

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