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Rheto-Romance speaking people include Friulians (people from Friuli), Ladins and Swiss-Romansh. Some scholars include also people from Val di Non near Trento who speak a closely related language only lacking the sygmatic plural.
their ethnic identity is rather unsure: in Italy those with italian names and last names (and thus italian culture latu senso) are regarded as italians, those with germanized names are regarded as foreigners.
while Friulians have italian names and Romansh have germanized names (although often hinting to a romance origin) Ladins are somewhere in a grey area sharing both italian names (notably those living near Trento and Belluno) and german names (those living near Bozen).
I was watching a ski competition with my father and he was commenting our athlete Peter R-u-n-gg-aldier like "this guy has nothing italian beside his passport" and I promptly corrected him "he's not german, he's ladin therefore italian" and he was like "oh well, whathever".
oddly enough a ladin speaking guy from Cortina (BL) Alfredo Zardini was killed in Switzerland back in 1971 out of anti-italian hatred. would he had been killed carrying a german name?
Romansh people are someway estranged from Italy and not even fascist nationalists are claiming them as irredent italians.