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
• This ski-in, ski-out property now has 51 rooms all decked out in traditional Ladin decor.
  — Erica Firpo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 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
• But just an hour away in the Val Badia valley sits a Ladin village that has largely flown under most travelers’ radars.
  — Erica Firpo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 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
• Corvara is a Ladin village in Italy’s Dolomites that combines world-class skiing with a rare tri-lingual culture and year-round outdoor adventures.
  — Erica Firpo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2026
• But La Usc di Ladins is also full of pieces criticizing the Games and their lack of Ladin representation.
  — 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
• For die-hard skiers, the draw is the Sellaronda, a 27-mile circuit linking four Ladin valleys around the Sella Massif, which can be done in a day.
  — Erica Firpo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 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
• For a cozier feel, Berghotel Ladinia has 13 rooms, wooden floors, three stuben in red, green, and blue looking directly onto the Sassongher, and full Ladin hospitality.
  — Erica Firpo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2026
• Visitors can ski the Dolomiti Superski network, hike scenic mountain trails, cycle famous passes, and experience centuries-old Ladin traditions and cuisine.
  — Erica Firpo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2026
• Nearly 90 percent of Corvarans still speak Ladin at home, as well as Italian and German, a result of multiple flip-flops between Austrian and Italian rule.
  — Erica Firpo, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 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