[2][3] The contract to work on the project was given in 1988 by representatives from the Dolomite Ladins to the Zurich Professor Heinrich Schmid, who had previously designed the Dachsprache Rumantsch Grischun written language.
Schmid accepted this challenge and in 1998 he published for standard Ladin its Guidelines for the Development of a Common Written Language of the Dolomite Ladins (Wegleitung für den Aufbau einer gemeinsamen Schriftsprache der Dolomitenladiner), in which the outlines for the new written language were presented.
Superlatives are formed using a comparative preceded by the corresponding article: la plu vedla ('the oldest').
Ladin is not a pro-drop language, the unstressed personal pronoun is never omitted (e.g.: al pluev 'it rains').
Ladin uses special enclitic pronouns for questions: E.g. the sentence Tu ciantes ('You sing') changes to Cianteste?