Is South Tyrol Germanic?

[GiCa]

Yes, it's Germanic and Austrian.

Absolutely nothing to do with Italians other than the fact it was given to them as a spoil of war.

Neither it was Germanic speekig in the middle ages. They spoke Ladin there before germanic

[Teutone]

Yes it is German.

[GiCa]

Whoever say they have 0 to do with Northern Italians is completely wrong. Since ever those places were intercultural exchange between the Germanophone world and the romance phone world. As I said first language spoken there was Ladin.. And before that they spoke Celtic and Retian language.. This last language was of the same family of Etruscan language.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rpb48...ature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/jdSEcdQkenk

[Latinus]

Aren't the majority of people there of Austrian ancestry and German speaker? If the answer is yes, they are Germanic.

[JMack]

Tyrol is historically, culturally and ethnically it's own thing, it's not strictly speaking German or Italian, but has its own cultural and genetical specificities. From a linguistic and ethnic POV most Tyroleans are Germans and Italianized Germans or Italians with substantial German/Bavarian ancestry.

Genetically the region can be divided in 4 main regions: Nordtirol, Osttirol, Südtirol and Trento/Welschtirol. The identity of the people is heavily attached to the County of Tyrol and the Holy Roman Empire, very few people in Tyrol identify as ''Italian'' in the sense of being ethnically and culturally Italian, even Italian speaking Tyroleans tended to consider themselves ''Austrians'' before 1950.

[Token]

I was reading about remnants of Germanic paganism in the folklore of modern Germanic countries and i found something interesting about South Tyrol that some people might find interesting:

A precedent for Viking Age Mjolnir amulets have been documented in the migration period Alemanni, who took to wearing Roman "Hercules' Clubs" as symbols of Donar. A possible remnant of these Donar amulets was recorded in 1897, as it was a custom of the Unterinn (South Tyrolian Alps) to incise a T-shape above front doors for protection against evil (especially storms). (Wikipedia)

A "T" has been inscribed above the front door of several houses in Unterinn [in the South Tyrolian Alps] for protection against evils of all kinds, especially storms. Formerly this custom could be observed on nearly every house.
Source: Joh. Adolf Heyl, Volkssagen, Bräuche und Meinungen aus Tirol (Brixen: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Kath.-polit. Pressvereins, 1897), p. 804.

Germanic pagan traditions were pretty much erased in southern Germanic countries, but maybe we could still find these kind of customs surviving to this day in more isolated/mountainous areas.

[Pansarkamrat]

Yes it is but it got Latin inlfulence.

[Smeagol]

Yes, it's German.

[MinervaItalica]

Not all parts of Alto Adige are fully Germanic.