Dialect, Mother Tongue, and Dueling Economies of Recognition in a Trentino, Italy, School
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In 2025, a high school in Trentino, Northern Italy, posted a public display in its main hall featuring a short video on a wall-mounted screen. The video was built around a series of parole intraducibili, or “untranslatable words.” Students collected examples from their peers in multiple languages, emphasizing speakers of heritage languages whose families had migrated to Italy since the 1990s. These included not only languages with a standard codified by institutions and written texts—s
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