Abstract
The paper focuses on multilingual families in South Tyrol, an official trilingual province in Northern Italy, where Italian, German and Ladin are spoken. Data collection took place in Standard German at several German-language high schools. Based on the analysis of thirteen autobiographic narratives, the current qualitative study investigates (1) pupils’ language use within the (multilingual) family; and (2) the impact their multiple varieties or languages have on the declaration of language-group affiliation. How do the languages co-exist within the family? Which language(s) is/are used? What do multilingual pupils think about the declaration of language-group affiliation?