page_title: Luserna
section_title: Cimbrian culture and language
hierarchical_section_title: Luserna / Cimbrian culture and language
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gemeinde Lusern/Luserna, Autonome Provinz Trient, Italien. Oben: Zweisprachiges Ortseingangsschild; Unten: Beispiel für ein neues Straßenschild (oben der deutsche Name, unten kleiner der italienische Name)
context_page_description: Luserna is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 25 kilometres southeast of Trento. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 284 and an area of 8.2 square kilometres.
  Lusérn borders the following municipalities: Caldonazzo, Lavarone, Levico Terme, Pedemonte, Rotzo and Valdastico.
context_section_description: Lusérn is the centre of Cimbrian language and culture. In the 2001 census, around 90% of the people of Lusérn stated Cimbrian, an Upper German dialect of the Germanic language, to be their first language. Formerly, Cimbrian was also spoken in neighbouring Lavarone and in the so-called Seven Communities and Thirteen Communities. A cultural institute was decreed by provincial law and receives funds from the Italian state to help preserve the unique tradition, culture and language.
  The Cimbrian spoken in Lusérn is a slightly different dialect from Cimbrian spoken elsewhere.
caption: Bilingual signs in both Italian and German
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