"Teachers that speak the maternal languages of the children in rural schools will be allowed to educate the youngest children, " said Assistant Education Minister Demetrio Cojti, who authored the measures.
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In South Tyrol, the majority language is German ( 69 % of the population ), although in the capital city Bolzano 73 % of the population speaks Italian as its maternal language due to internal immigration from other regions of Italy.
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"' 1880 "' Ortie had 1, 086 houses and 5, 451 inhabitants : 2, 312 Romanians, 1, 427 Germans, 1, 227 Hungarians, 16 Slovaks, 8 Serbs, 176 other nationalities, 138 foreigners and 147 of unknown maternal language ( a category that included Gypsies ); 2, 030 Eastern Orthodox, 1, 002 Roman Catholic, 964 Lutheran, 769 Calvinist, 523 Eastern Rite, 163 Jewish.
