. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Lexs than 32m. 32-43in. 43-S3in. thai. The names of several villages in the latter prove that the district was formerly inhabited, in part at least, by Slavs. Boioarians and Swabians from the north-west, Germanised Slavs advancing up the valley of the Drave, Goths and Longobards ousted from Italy, gradually reduced the domain of the Ladins, and they are confined now to the valleys of Gherdeina (Gardena, or Groden), Enneberg, and Badia, to the east of Brixen. The "Welsh" spoken there is mixed, however, with many words of German origin, whilst the G
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Lexs than 32m. 32-43in. 43-S3in. thai. The names of several villages in the latter prove that the district was formerly inhabited, in part at least, by Slavs. Boioarians and Swabians from the north-west, Germanised Slavs advancing up the valley of the Drave, Goths and Longobards ousted from Italy, gradually reduced the domain of the Ladins, and they are confined now to the valleys of Gherdeina (Gardena, or Groden), Enneberg, and Badia, to the east of Brixen. The "Welsh" spoken there is mixed, however, with many words of German origin, whilst the German mountaineers make use of Ladin terms. Most of the inhabitants speak both languages indifferently. The Ladins differ not only in language, but also physically, from their neighbours, the Germans and Italians. They are of more slender build than the former; have poor beards, but long 73
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