In Trentino the use of dialect in everyday life is still very common
Despite sharing many similarities with the Venetian dialect, the Trentinian dialect was strongly influenced by Ladin and German. Especially some dialectal words for agricultural and artisanal tools were borrowed from German or the South Tyrolean dialect spoken in the adjacent province of South Tyrol (Alto Adige). Other terms instead were introduced into the dialect thanks to Germanic populations who settled in Trentino in the past centuries or were adopted from the Austrian Hungarian dynasty. Numerous linguistic studies on hundreds of dialectal terms, idioms and sentence constructions revealed greater similarity to German than to Italian.
Especially in the valleys and small villages of Trentino, dialect is still spoken today and dialectal theatre performances are deeply rooted in tradition.
